Author: Eira Tansey

November
2	Carry In Meal
9	Business Meeting
16	Spiritual Journeys of 3 seasoned Friends	Sarah, Sunny, Gene
23	The Power of Enough	Megan Fair of Right Sharing of World Resources
30	Weaving Threads of Gratitude	Deema Romer
December
7	Carry In Meal
14	Business Meeting
21	Variety Show	Religious Development
28	To Be Announced

March
2	Carry In Meal
9	Business Meeting
16	A Conversation about Opening the Parables with the Author	Donne Hayden
23	Quaker-Buddhism panel	Bill Cahalan, Pamela Cobey, John Sniegocki
30	Can joining Quaker Earthcare Witness’ vision and plan help us survive political chaos?	Unity with Nature
April
6	Carry In Meal
13	Meeting for Business
20	Easter	Religious Development
27	Eastern Hills intervisitation for Miami Quarterly	Miami Quarterly
May
4	Carry In Meal
11	Business Meeting
18	Introductions to several attenders	ARE
25	The Quaker Game Show	Don Hutchinson
June
2	Pancake Breakfast and Outdoor Meeting
9	Business Meeting

Note that Community Friends Meeting typically does not have scheduled second hours in the summer.

All events below happen after the rise of meeting for worship (on Sundays).

January
5	Carry in Meal	8:45am – 9:30am Yoga with Liz
12	Business Meeting
19	Pronouns as spiritual practice	Rachel Ernst Stahlhut
26	Meet the Quakers: Brief intros to a few historical Friends	Intro to Quakerism group

February
2	Carry in Meal
9	Business Meeting
16	Quaker Journeys	Adult Religious Education
23	Silence and the Notion of the Commons: Ursula Franklin	Eira Tansey

Now that summer is winding down, we have a brand new slate of second hour programming planned for the rest of 2024 thanks to the hard work of Adult Religious Education! All events below happen after the rise of meeting for worship (on Sundays).

ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION- SECOND HOURS

September	Event
1	Carry In Meal
8	Business Meeting
15	Introduction to First Day School curriculum on Quaker History
22	History of Israel-Palestine
29	Quaker Elder Stories – Wilhelmina, Tim, Don
October
6	Carry In Meal
13	Business Meeting
20	Oh, the places you’ll go: exploring Quaker Meetings across the U.S.
27	Death café – conversations about death
November
3	Carry In Meal
10	Business Meeting
17	How do we support a safe, respectful community: A review of sexual misconduct policies and practices
24	Giving Thanks
December
1	Carry In Meal
8	Business Meeting
15	Variety Show
22	The Power of Enough
29	TBD

May 5th – Carry In Meal (aka Potluck) Unity with Nature requests Friends label their food, especially local, organic, vegetarian or vegan, and gluten-free

May 12th – Meeting for Business AND Mother’s Day

May 19th – Happy 400th Birthday George Fox

May 26th – Living the Israel-Gaza Minute – Exploring how to live our Quaker values in the world

Quakers are led by Divine guidance to cherish peace, and to testify against all wars and the use of violence to pursue political ends.   As members of the human family, we grieve with all those who are suffering from the terrible violence in Israel on October 7, 2023 and in Gaza and the West Bank and Israel since then.

We join with dozens of other Quaker Meetings across the United States to bring our historic Peace Testimony into living action by upholding the following truths:

• Our shared humanity enables us to recognize and protect the Inner Light in everyone.
• Violence has not resulted in lasting peace or security for anyone in the region.
• Every Israeli and every Palestinian is a victim of this current violent outbreak which is an outgrowth of ongoing strife from before the British Mandate for Palestine in the 1920s until today.  We mourn the losses and suffering that all have endured for decades.
• In humility we admit that the United States has much peace and justice work to do at home, and that our country has helped perpetuate instability in the Middle East through military action and aid, diplomatic pressure, and lack of leadership.

Based on these truths we call on Palestinian and Israeli leaders and their foreign enablers, including the US government, to recognize the justice issues behind both Palestinian and Israeli territorial and national claims.  Specifically, we call on the United States to:

• Assist in establishing a mutual agreement among the partisan groups so Palestinians and Israelis can live either together or side by side in peace and safety.
• Reject Islamophobia and anti-Semitism both at home and abroad.  Fearlessly seek and value objective truth while tenderly protecting people’s lived experiences and honoring their right to have opinions. Study history so it is not repeated.
• Address polarization and fear through cross-cultural dialogue.

We urgently call for:

• An immediate ceasefire and end of unchallenged military aid.
• Return of all hostages.
• Ongoing humanitarian aid proportional to the need.
• Respect for international law and accountability for human rights violations, including genocide.
• Help from trauma-informed peace teams.
• A global commitment to finding peaceful ways to resolve conflict.

Community Friends Meeting calls on each of us to work for understanding, seek opportunity for dialogue, repudiate violence, and remain steadfast in our commitment to peaceful resolution of this and all other conflicts.

April 7th: Carry In (potluck)
April 14th: Meeting for Business
April 21st: Where are we now: Reflections on our Sustainability Minute with Unity with Nature Committee
April 28th: Introducing Quaker Elise Boulding led by Pam Cobey

January
7	Meal
14	Business Meeting
21	Spiritual Journey	Eira Tansey
28	Miami Quarter
February
4	Meal
11	Business Meeting
18	Quaker Process	Lisa Cayard for Ministry & Counsel
25	The Power and Potential of Nonviolent Action	John Sniegocki

Saturday, Jan. 13. 10:00 AM. Quaker Pamphlet Reader Group. Meets at Bean & Barley coffeehouse. All are welcome to join as available. See anyone on the Community Committee to get more information or sign up.

Monday, Jan. 15. 7:00 PM. Cincinnati Observatory Tour. Free. See anyone on the Community Committee to get more information or sign up.

December	Second Hours
3	Carry In
10	Business Meeting
17	Variety Show  – Jim Rhein M.C.
24	Christmas Eve – singing with Wilhelmina Branson
31	New Year’s Eve –  TBA