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Read the report of our representatives to Friends United Meeting: "The events of this past year have raised serious questions concerning FUM's direction and the continued participation of BYM in this organization... (more...)   See selected responses

Joe Volk, Executive Secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation, gave the Carey Memorial Lecture at Annual Sessions. "There is no elegant solution to a poorly defined problem.  But, if we can get the problem definition right, then we create the opening to work on the problem and the possibility of an elegant solution." (more...)

A recent article in the Philadelphia Inquirer calls attention to "Palestinian Quakers still offer peaceable spirit in troubled land" (more...)

William Penn House has an opening for the Program and Grants Coordinator position. (more...)

The Director, who is a member of the Religious Society of Friends, oversees and directs all aspects of QUNO and Quaker House and communicates Quaker perspectives at the U.N. (more...)

Summary of the facilitated listening session on our Concerns and Hopes for the Young Friends Program. Plus the message from the Young Friends

The Quaker Universalist Fellowship announces the publication of the "Quaker Universalist Reader Number 2: Universalism and Religions", edited by Patricia A. Williams. This new publication collects the writings of thirty-six Quaker authors from Great Britain and the U.S. (more...)

Lauri Perman, Presiding Clerk of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, has resigned her position, effective at the end of March Interim Meeting, in order to accept the position of Executive Director of Pendle Hill. We wish Lauri well in her new calling. (more...)

At this time we say farewell to BYM Youth Secretary Hope Braveheart, who is moving on to a position with Community Mediation Maryland as their Americorps Coordinator... (more...)

Joy in a Box

When I was a child, I didn’t like crayons, especially dull, broken crayons. When I became a parent, our son gravitated to washable markers, then new to the market.... (more...)

Contact Information Please!

The ability to communicate is a key to functioning well in any organization. BYM has a new database, but some information has been lost over the years. A call has gone out to each Monthly Meeting for the most current directory to be sent to the office. Please email electronic directories to admin@bym-rsf.org. If an electronic version is not available, please mail a hard copy to the BYM office.

You can support BYM with a New Long Distance Phone Service at 2.75 cents per minute. This is an opportunity to both contribute money each month to Baltimore Yearly Meeting at no cost to you and to save a significant amount each month yourself.(more...)

Spring is upon us and it is time to start thinking about getting our camp properties ready for another season of use. Your camps are hopping with new life in the spring time and they beg us to join them for a weekend. (more...)

Four new Spring programs at the Friends Wilderness Center have been announced! Gardening with Nature + Spring Work Day + Open House + Birding & Nature Journaling. (more...)

Interim meeting is scheduled to be held March 24 at Gunpowder Friends Meeting. If you are a representative from your monthly meeting to Interim Meeting, please let Ann Whittaker at admin@bym-rsf.org know your current address and email.

A Quaker Camporee!

The Friends Committee on Scouting of the Friends World Committee for Consultation announces its annual meeting. When: Friday, April 13, 2007 thru Sunday, April 15, 2007 Where: Plainfield Meeting, Plainfield, Indiana (more...)

Application forms for high school, college and graduate student loans are now available. Click here for information and the loan package. Applications are due by May 1, 2007

The Womens’ Peace Exchange (formerly known as Mothers for Peace and known in the United Kingdom as Women to Women for Peace) will be hosting a visit in October 2007 from two women from Palestine, two women from Israel, and four women from the U.K. (more...)

This past summer, I traveled to northwest England to where the Quaker movement was born, to join a 1652 Country Pilgrimage. This three-day offering is organized by the North West 1652 Committee of British Quakers and is based at Swarthmoor Hall (www.swarthmoorhall.co.uk). (more...)

Have you ever wondered how the Religious Society of Friends continues to thrive and change? Friends’ Meetings depend on Spirit moving through you to open the way. Getting involved in Yearly Meeting committees and activities is one way to open to Spirit. Serving on a BYM committee can be a special experience. (more...)

Feeling frustrated? Want to learn how to make changes for Peace and Justice? Then, you might want to come to this one day workshop on “Strategy Is Possible,” co-sponsored by the BYM Peace and Social Concerns Committee and William Penn House in Washington, DC. (more...)

BYM’s Criminal and Restorative Justice Committee brought its table display on restorative justice, negotiation and treatment of prisoners to the first Taste of Justice Fair last September in Washington, D.C. (more...)

Those of us who participate in the Working Group on Racism Among Friends are sometimes asked. “Why are you trying to make us feel guilty?” While our group has not yet completed work on its mission statement, no one has proposed “making Friends feel guilty” as a goal... (more...)

In August, the Committee was honored to have Ada Deer, former Secretary of the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a guest speaker at Yearly Meeting. In addition, we had special guests join us from the Torreon/Star Lake Chapter of Navajo Nation... (more...)

BYM Friends Value Community, Economic Diversity In Retirement

For Friends in Baltimore Yearly Meeting, one of the most important features of an ideal place to live as a senior citizen is in community with other Friends. In a survey conducted last summer, more than half (53%) of respondents said that it was “very important” for “BYM Friends to have a place to retire together.” (more...)

Last year Washington Quaker Workcamp led a New Orleans Workcamp with 12 volunteers, who sorted more than 300 boxes of donated books, landscaped the garden around a soon-to-reopen branch of the New Orleans Public Library, provided a caring presence to the people with whom they worked and interacted, and listened to dozens of New Orleanians spontaneously tell their stories. (more...)

Since April of 2005, I have been engaged in an Embraced Ministry, with support and oversight provided by Baltimore Yearly Meeting together with my home meeting, Richmond Friends. (more...)

The theme of the gathering was Quakers Responding to Militarism at Home and Abroad with a significant focus on terrorism. It was held at the Jamestown Friends Meeting, Jamestown, NC, from September 22 to 24, 2006. (more...)

As in previous Annual Meetings I have attended, I was amazed by the how much FCNL is able to accomplish in a seemingly hostile political climate. From the outside, it is tempting to view FCNL as an admirable, principled organization with no real clout in a Washington dominated by... (more...)

AFSC has a great new website which you can access at: www.friendsforpeace.org or from AFSCs home page: www.afsc.org. There are some wonderful photos but best of all, you can download signs or make your own. (more...)

Between the holidays, a Yearly Meeting Friend made just one phone call that created a more secure retirement plan and also left a legacy for Baltimore Yearly Meeting. (more...)

...is pleased to announce the availability of our newest Journal on the web. This free material can be read on the screen, or downloaded in two different formats.(more...)

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