by Liz Nicholson | Jun 19, 2017 | Alumni, News, Resources
Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms June 1, 2017 By Barbara Dale Excerpt “…Quakerism has been an important structure for me to learn in and from. I still live with housemates from QVS, and I feel clued into something larger than myself through...
by Liz Nicholson | Feb 8, 2017 | National, News, Resources
Position: Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow Community, Social Justice, Transformational Spirituality Quaker Voluntary Service is a year-long service program in which young adults, between the ages 21-30, live communally, work full time at social service and social...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 9, 2017 | Quaker Service Testimonies, Resources
Why do we tell stories of Quaker Service? QVS is part of a long stream of Quaker service, a “cloud of witnesses” who paved the way for young adults today. We honor and lift up the stories of those who have come before us, and have given of themselves to...
by Liz Nicholson | Jan 7, 2017 | Equity, Resources
Denormalizing Whiteness for Racial Justice- click here for PDF Created by Genevieve Beck-Roe, AFSC Friends Relations Fellow, serving as a Quaker Voluntary Service Alumni Fellow, for use among Friends Introduction Demographically, Quakerism within the United States is...
by qvservice | Oct 18, 2011 | Resources
To prophesy is not to predict, but to seize upon reality in its moment of highest expectation and tension toward the new. – Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable Our Friends at the American Friends Service Committee invited QVS working group member Noah Baker...
