Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Meeting for Grief and Hope

Meeting for Grief and Hope

University Friends Meeting Worship Room
Saturday, July 30 1pm to 4pm,
Worship 1:30 to 2:30

Please come join us Saturday, July 30 for a Meeting for Grief and Hope to worship in the manner of Friends (silent worship), sharing our sorrow at the violence and deaths in Norway and our hope for a peaceful, multi-cultural future. This meeting for worship feels particularly needed because the victims in Norway were targeted because of their commitment to working toward a peaceful, multi-cultural world.

Let us gather to seek what love would have us do.

The title “Meeting for Grief and Hope” comes from the many gatherings held in the last few days in Norway as Norwegians deal with what has happened in their country. Jamal Rahman, a Muslim Sufi minister at the Interfaith Community Church in Seattle will worship with us.

Noon to 1:00pm – Come early and help set up

1:00pm – Gathering begins

1:30pm-2:30pm – Silent worship in the Worship Room

2:30pm-4:00pm – Social gathering outside

4:00pm-5:00pm – Clean Up

Because our social hall is under construction, hospitality will be
limited to finger foods and drinks outside in the Quaker House backyard.
If you would like to help put on this event, and do not already know how to contact the clerk of Worship and Ministry, leave a comment and RantWoman will route directly.
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5 comments:

  1. RantWomanJuly 29, 2011 at 5:54 PM

    http://johanpdx.blogspot.com/2011/07/innocent-norway.html

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  2. RantWomanJuly 31, 2011 at 10:45 PM

    RantWoman has been finding herself stuck as to how to pray for those killed and wounded in this tragedy, for people across Norway's political spectrum, and for nations around the world facing a variety of refugee and migration crises.

    RantWoman finds it easy to pray on account of the hopes and dreams of a nation's youth; RantWoman notes with Sadness that in this case, being well-connected and presumably highly motivated proved a liability rather than an asset; RantWoman prays that this episode will redouble people's orientation toward both peacefulness and listening in order to head off future outbreaks of internal violence.

    RantWoman prays for the people of Norway. RantWoman's sample of Norwegians she is personally acquainted with is very small; none of the ones RantWoman knows is pleased to have the violent fringes of their country's polity thrust up into full view of the whole world. Nor is RantWoman pleased to learn what all seems to have slipped past Norway's gun control regimen. RantWoman has decided she can hold these matters in the Light regardless of any further delving into facts and nuances.

    RantWoman feels similarly for the moment about refugee crises, migration, and relocation around the world.

    In other words, holding in the Light is the best RantWoman can do at the moment; perhaps there are worse places to start.

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  3. RantWomanAugust 1, 2011 at 1:22 PM

    RantWoman lives without swimming in all the media currents swirling about certain events so RantWoman is only now reading that there was an assumption that the person behind the Norway attacks was some kind of Islamic extremist.

    http://blog.sojo.net/2011/08/01/extremism-terrorism-and-the-attack-in-norway/

    RantWoman remembers media circus headed the same way about the bombing of the Alfred Murragh building in Oklahoma City. RantWoman remembers the circus; she also remembers thinking at the time, "why? Why Oklahoma City?" Then RantWoman read a book by the founder of the FBI's hostage negotiation team. It was a fascinating book in terms of comments about human nature and peacemaking though with more sharpshooters than RantWoman would be comfortable with. Anyway, the author of this book said he knew as soon as the first reports came out "These are Bubbas." RantWoman wonders what the Norwegian or northern European equivalent is of "These are Bubbas."

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  4. RantWomanAugust 4, 2011 at 3:10 PM

    Waging Nonviolence on what is really happening in Norway with excerpts from Facebook.

    VERY humbling.

    http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/08/what-is-really-going-on-in-norway/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WagingNonviolence+%28Waging+Nonviolence%29

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  5. RantWomanAugust 18, 2011 at 3:05 PM

    gathering in light on religion and uniformity starting from events in Norway and ...

    http://gatheringinlight.com/2011/08/14/uniformity-religio-solidarity-psalm-133/

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