Welcome To Doylestown Friends Meeting!
The central belief of Quakers is that there is a spark of the Divine in every person. From that concept flows the traditional Quaker concerns for nonviolent conflict resolution, respect for each human being, and the belief in everyone’s ability to have a direct, living relationship with the Divine.
At Doylestown Friends we meet for worship on Sunday mornings in the Meeting House at 95 E. Oakland Avenue in Doylestown, PA. We seek to be receptive to the Spirit within ourselves and others. We are an open and inclusive community, and guests are welcome.
- Meeting For Worship: 10 AM Sunday at the Meetinghouse
- Children’s Program: 10:15 AM Sunday at the Meetinghouse
- Meeting For Business: 11:30 AM Second Sunday (Zoom Access Available – Click HERE)
STATEMENT ON THE VIOLENCE IN GAZA AND ISRAEL
As Quakers who worship that of God in every person of all religious and national affiliations, we are heartbroken by the unceasing atrocities and dehumanizing brutality perpetuated in Gaza and in Israel.
We condemn both the violent Hamas attack and the indiscriminate Israeli response, given the large disparity between the resources of both groups. Together we mourn the loss of each child, each civilian, each soldier, and we grieve for those suffering from the trauma inflicted by terror and bombardment. We pray for the safe return of hostages and for the preservation of Palestinian and Israeli families.
No peace can ever be achieved through violence; therefore, we call for an immediate cease-fire and for a more vigorous commitment to productive diplomacy. This enduring conflict bears witness to the world that hostility breeds only displacement, hunger, injury, more hostility, and ever-widening global instability. Immediate humanitarian aid must reach those living in ever-present peril.
We call upon our government to cease supplying arms and to employ every diplomatic effort to ensure the transport of basic human provisions and medical aid for everyone in dire need. We call for Friends to never cease listening to all voices. Recognizing that the underpinnings of this multifaceted conflict lie deeply rooted in past harm, we call upon all governments and international agencies to begin the long, difficult, but essential process of peace-building. We applaud the efforts of both Palestinian and Israeli peace-building groups who continue their efforts amid the most grave circumstances. We are aware of and affirm the process of the South African government in bringing the issues of genocide to the International Court of Justice.
Peace is the highest form of justice, and as Quakers, we answer the call of our testimony to pursue that peace.
Below are links to other Quaker statements:
STATEMENT ON BLACK LIVES MATTER
We, the members of Doylestown Friends Meeting, acknowledge that we are a largely Euro-American white community and we are committed to interrupting the pattern of white privilege we inherited. We stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and embrace the diversity of all peoples and will act to break down institutional racism.
STATEMENT ON THE WAR IN UKRAINE
We advocate for the US, its allies and the United Nations to make avoidance of nuclear conflict its primary goal, to pursue all possible avenues towards a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian conflict and to help both Russia and Ukraine reach an immediate cease-fire. We ask the US government and military representatives to refrain from statements that assert or imply that the use of aid to Ukraine can be a means to fight a war by proxy with Russia, as this will bring us closer to a nuclear war. We ask that the US military and government refrain from the use of good versus evil as a template to engage in war. Such rhetoric can lead to unrelenting escalation of a conflict on both sides with the dehumanization and disregard of civilian populations resulting in war crimes such as death camps and indiscriminate bombing. War is a failure of humanity. It yields only death and unspeakable horror in its execution and multi-generational torment in its aftermath. War never provides lasting Peace. War is not the answer. Here are links to other Quaker statements: FCNL.org and FCNL.org
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