The New Story Group (Zoom)
The FMC New Story meets on Zoom from 7:00 to 9:00pm on the fourth Monday of the month. Come at 6:30 for fellowship. First timers are always welcome!
The topic for the meeting is slowly coming into focus on the theme of “Creativity.”
To participate in this event click this link or call 1-646-558-8656 and provide the Meeting ID 875 6881 1869 and passcode 101225.
For more information and list of resources, please visit the New Story web page here. To be placed on the email list for New Story News and announcements of future meetings contact Cornelia Parkes new-story@fmcquaker.org.
Meeting details
At 7:00pm we will open with check-ins and announcements.
Next, we will have a discussion led by Dave Damm-Luhr of the document “Initial Design of Multi-month Program.” Please take this opportunity to step into the new story and to think about future programs that you would like to create using this design. Are additional principles needed to guide developing an evening’s program? If so, which? How can we update the resource lists to best support people considering leading an evening’s program?
Then we will open the program on creativity by reading the poem Passion by Steven Longfellow Fiske and a few introductory words by Celeste Hogan and Cornelia Parkes. The rest of the evening is open for you to share your experiences of spirit led action (or not).
Thomas Berry writes, “… As a third general remark about energy I note that belief in a personal creative energy principle is the primary basis of western spiritual traditions. Thus the creed opens with a reference to power as the distinguishing attribute of the creative principle of heaven and earth and all things. Unfortunately, western religious traditions have been so occupied with redemptive healing of a flawed world that they tend to ignore creation as it is experienced in our times. Consequently, one of the basic difficulties of the modern west is its division into a secular scientific community that is concerned with creative energies and the religious community which is concerned with redemptive energies. So concerned are we with redemptive healing that, once healed we look only to be more healed. We seldom get to our functional role within the creative intentions of the universe.” [“Creative Energy” by Thomas Berry, Cross Currents Summer/Fall 1987, pp179-186]
