Huntsville Area Friends Meeting

12/14/2023

Once again we are holding meeting for worship in person. Our new location is 190 Lime Quarry Rd suite 110, Madison, AL 35758, USA.

Meeting begins at 10 AM on Sundays. We'd love for you to join us.

08/19/2022

Quaker parent mutual support groups are opening for the third year. The registration deadline is November 1, 2022.

06/08/2022

Registration for YAY Gathering is now open! Registration closes Sunday, June 19. Looking for Virtual Gathering registration? Learn more here. Who comes to YAY Gathering YAY Gathering is an in-person event for Quaker Young Adults, Youth & Families hosted by FGC’s Junior Gathering, High School and A...

03/06/2022

What makes Quakers a “peaceable” people? As Anthony Manousos explains, it’s not a lack of conflict.

02/20/2022

It can be hard to find joy in a time of great uncertainty. Mosi Harrington shares the power of lightheartedness to get through dark times.

08/21/2021

Recommended reading.

Excited to share that has been named a finalist for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize! Congratulations to my fellow finalists! I now have an amazing reading list for the fall:

• Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen;
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson;
• The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper;
• The Road from Raqqa: A Story of Brotherhood, Borders, and Belonging by Jordan Ritter;
• When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father’s War and What Remains by Ariana Neumann

“Each writer offers solutions, an antidote to gun violence, racism, and war—and that antidote is love... As a body of work, these finalists do see love as revolutionary. We would welcome such a revolution.” —Dayton Literary Peace Prize

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Inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize honors writers whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding. Launched in 2006, it is recognized as one of the world’s most prestigious literary honors, and is the only international literary peace prize awarded in the United States.

03/09/2021

As a lifelong Quaker, Arthur Larrabee was frustrated that he couldn’t answer the question, “What do Quakers believe?” So he set out to do just that.SUPPORT Q...

02/26/2021

From This We Can Say: Australian Quaker Life, Faith and Thought

"Quakerism is far from a comfortable faith. It is full of queries. Are you? Have you? Do you? Then as one grows in the silence and in the development of the craft of Hope, there comes the realization of another thorny growth--the inability to avoid responsibility for the suffering of others. 'Let your lives speak!' The challenge George Fox threw out three hundred years ago has not lost its barb. Do I? Am I? Should I? There are no easy answers in the Quaker way."

02/17/2021

Our next conference for Quaker youth in middle and high school is happening this weekend! Register to join us virtually, and find out about the rest of our upcoming youth programming, here: https://buff.ly/3tWmwNr

The Quake That Rocked the Continent is organized by FGC, Illinois Yearly Meeting, and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

02/14/2021

Friends General Conference Youth Summit for middle and high school aged young friends is coming soon February 20-21, 2021. Our local youth participate in SAYF, a regional youth group, but this will be a great chance to connect with Quaker Youth on a national level.

02/09/2021

Our query from last Sunday's Meeting for Worship was, what does love require of me?