Faithful Meetings Schedule
The first Faithful Meeting Zoom session will be held on Thursday, May 11 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Currently, 11+ OCMM Friends are committed to engaging with this 9 month program. An invitation is extended to others in the community, as well.
Faithful Meetings was designed to be flexible, with the intention of creating a space for folks to show up with whatever time and interest they have. If you can't attend the Thursday gatherings, you are still welcome to participate in a spiritual formation group or to read the materials in the classroom and respond to queries in the classroom forum. If you would like to do either, email Mary Linda at faithfulmeetings@schoolofthespirit.org. You are also welcome to join the program at any point so if you don't participate now, don't feel you are locked out.
Beginning July 6, meetings will be on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays for the monthly community learning sessions. This is Zoom link for the duration.
If you have questions about Faithful Meetings, contact faithfulmeetings@schoolofthespirit.org. If you have questions about OCMM's participation (including scholarships), contact Richard Russell at richtigerrich@gmail.com.
Faithful Meetings was designed to be flexible, with the intention of creating a space for folks to show up with whatever time and interest they have. If you can't attend the Thursday gatherings, you are still welcome to participate in a spiritual formation group or to read the materials in the classroom and respond to queries in the classroom forum. If you would like to do either, email Mary Linda at faithfulmeetings@schoolofthespirit.org. You are also welcome to join the program at any point so if you don't participate now, don't feel you are locked out.
Beginning July 6, meetings will be on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays for the monthly community learning sessions. This is Zoom link for the duration.
If you have questions about Faithful Meetings, contact faithfulmeetings@schoolofthespirit.org. If you have questions about OCMM's participation (including scholarships), contact Richard Russell at richtigerrich@gmail.com.
Latin in the Meetinghouse
Starting on November 2nd, Bob Elmendorf will offer instruction in Latin for Junior High School Students on Thursdays at 3:00 in our Meetinghouse. He will teach from Latin Via Ovid and augment the classes with a history of the alphabet, proto-indo-european, derivations and some Catullus poems. The students will be encouraged to take small research projects either with books provided by the instructor or on the Internet, and report back to the class. If you have any questions, contact Bob poet2277@gmail.com.
Bob is still accepting students for this class.
Bob is still accepting students for this class.
Old Chatham Quaker Meeting's Book Club Sat. Feb. 3, 7:00 PM
We have selected as our next book Three Roads Back by Robert Richardson: How Emerson, Thoreau and James responded to the greatest losses of their lives. If you are interested in reading this book and joining the discussion let me know and I will send you a copy for free which you can donate afterwards to a local library.
For more information contact Bob Elmendorf poet2277@gmail.com
zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89693812298?pwd=V3Z1dTVBb1hMRStpTTdZUE9UbTlmUT09
A book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought
In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers. For Emerson, it was the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, it was the death of his brother; and for James, it was the death of his beloved cousin Minnie Temple. Filled with rich biographical detail and unforgettable passages from the journals and letters of Emerson, Thoreau, and James, these vivid and moving stories of loss and hard-fought resilience show how the writers’ responses to these deaths helped spur them on to their greatest work, influencing the birth and course of American literature and philosophy.
In reaction to his traumatic loss, Emerson lost his Unitarian faith and found solace in nature. Thoreau, too, leaned on nature and its regenerative power, discovering that “death is the law of new life,” an insight that would find expression in Walden. And James, following a period of panic and despair, experienced a redemptive conversion and new ideas that would drive his work as a psychologist and philosopher. As Richardson shows, all three emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in what Emerson called “the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.”
An inspiring book about resilience and the new growth and creativity that can stem from devastating loss, Three Roads Back is also an extraordinary account of the hidden wellsprings of American thought.
For more information contact Bob Elmendorf poet2277@gmail.com
zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89693812298?pwd=V3Z1dTVBb1hMRStpTTdZUE9UbTlmUT09
A book about how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James forged resilience from devastating loss, changing the course of American thought
In Three Roads Back, Robert Richardson, the author of magisterial biographies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James, tells the connected stories of how these foundational American writers and thinkers dealt with personal tragedies early in their careers. For Emerson, it was the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, it was the death of his brother; and for James, it was the death of his beloved cousin Minnie Temple. Filled with rich biographical detail and unforgettable passages from the journals and letters of Emerson, Thoreau, and James, these vivid and moving stories of loss and hard-fought resilience show how the writers’ responses to these deaths helped spur them on to their greatest work, influencing the birth and course of American literature and philosophy.
In reaction to his traumatic loss, Emerson lost his Unitarian faith and found solace in nature. Thoreau, too, leaned on nature and its regenerative power, discovering that “death is the law of new life,” an insight that would find expression in Walden. And James, following a period of panic and despair, experienced a redemptive conversion and new ideas that would drive his work as a psychologist and philosopher. As Richardson shows, all three emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in what Emerson called “the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.”
An inspiring book about resilience and the new growth and creativity that can stem from devastating loss, Three Roads Back is also an extraordinary account of the hidden wellsprings of American thought.