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Your Voice Matters: Let’s Advocate for Children!
How do we build policies and strengthen public investments that insure each child has the opportunity to thrive? Each of us can play a role in bringing the voices of families, educators, and concerns of community members directly to lawmakers. Learn more about how you can make your voice heard at the state and federal…
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Looking for the Arc of Justice in the Great Resignation
Reflecting on another Labor Day holiday upon us, we have to think about how the workforce environment has changed since the COVID-19 Pandemic. Some call the change the “Great Resignation.” Labor has always been an economic issue, but more importantly, it’s a social justice issue. What does justice look like in this new world of…
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Business and Worship – a Quaker Perspective
Columbia Monthly Meeting, the Religious Society of Friends, will describe the Quaker consensus process and how it is used to make decisions.
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Overshooting and Drawing Down
Overshooting and Drawing Down” looks at the present, past and future of society and climate change, finding us situated in a moment of moral and practical choice. We are poised between opposing exponential trends: the “overshoot” of environmental pollution and degradation, and the “draw down” of carbon emissions with the ongoing revolutionary transformation of our…
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Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society: The Wisdom of Frans de Waal
There is a popular belief about Nature that we live in a dog-eat-world of brutish survival of the fittest. If such a pessimistic world view ever makes you depressed, primate psychologist Frans de Waal offers an optimistic counterpoint. He found striking evidence that animals other than humans have empathy and a sense of fair play,…
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The Consequences of False Beliefs
False Beliefs have had dire consequences throughout history. Examples are provided. Quotes from Bertrand Russel and Mark Twain illustrate the dangers they pose and why they have always been a persistent problem due to human nature. Some discussion with reference to today’s political/cultural climate here in America.
In-Person Services, Columbia, SC Sundays 11AM
