by Shepherdstown Friends Meeting | Jan 14, 2024 | Where We Stand
As members of the Quaker community in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, we arespiritual heirs to 375 years of testimony and action against all war and violence. Wereaffirm the Quaker Peace Testimony of 1660 which states: “We utterly deny all outwardwars and strife and...
by Shepherdstown Friends Meeting | Sep 10, 2023 | Where We Stand
Adopted on September 10, 2023 at a Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business Preface for Discernment on Reproductive Health Care In the United States, strict restrictions on abortion ended with the 1973 Supreme Court’s decision known as Roe v. Wade. That decision...
by Shepherdstown Friends Meeting | Jul 20, 2020 | Where We Stand
By Shepherdstown Friends Monthly MeetingShepherdstown, West VirginiaJuly 26, 2020 We Quakers declare — as a matter of conscience and with the promptings of the Inner Light — that Black Lives Matter. The members of Shepherdstown Quaker Meeting are grieved and...
by Shepherdstown Friends Meeting | Jan 15, 2020 | Where We Stand
By Shepherdstown Friends Monthly Meeting January 2020 We support the Climate Change Statement developed by Quaker Earthcare Witness, Friends Committee for National Legislation and Quaker United Nations Office over five years ago. However, we regret the alarming lack...
by Shepherdstown Friends Meeting | Jan 23, 2015 | Where We Stand
Thou shalt not kill. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other cheek as well. These are profound commandments of moral action present in the Bible. In Quaker tradition, the testimonies of peace and...
