Friends House

Coming next week! The TMM Quaker Committee for Refugees is holding its 2026 Refugee Art Show at Friends House on Friday, June 12, 10am to 9pm and Saturday June 13, 10am to 5pm.

The show provides an opportunity for newcomers to share their feelings and stories with others at no charge.

Free attendance. Sale proceeds go directly to each artist. Wheelchair accessible.

The official opening with refreshments will be on June 12 at 6pm.

Hope to see you there!

For more information about the show, contact the Quaker Committee for Refugees: https://www.torontoquakers.org/quaker-committee-for... See less

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We had been talking for an hour and a half with a clergyman neighbour, and afterwards I sat by the fire and thought. He had maintained that war has not as yet been grown out of, and that God still uses it as a means of training His children. As I thought over this, old thoughts and memories awoke from sleep. I remembered the familiar words about William Penn’s sword – ‘Wear it as long as thou canst’: and it seemed clear to me that if William Penn had given it up from self-interest or cowardice, or for any reason short of the ‘witness of God in his own soul’, he would have been wrong. And then the thought extended itself from the life of one man to the life of mankind, and I remembered a sentence in the Epistle to Diognetus: ‘What the soul is in the body, that Christians are in the world’. Then I seemed to see that war cannot rightly come to an end from self-interest or cowardice or any worldly reason but only because men and women, by one and one, without waiting for the others, have become loyal to the spirit of Christ.

Marion C Fox, 1914
Quaker Faith and Practice 24.13

“Truth will not lose ground by being tried.”

Isaac Penington wrote these words in a letter to a friend in 1670, encouraging her that truth will always prevail, saying, “Darkness is afraid of the light, because it has a secret sense that it cannot stand before it.”

In this moment when the truth seems under attack, we explore what it means to live truthfully, to seek Divine truth, and to share it with others.

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"In both Quakerism and science you must be completely ready to revise what you hold to be the truth; you always hold things provisionally, and you are always open to revising them."

Jocelyn Bell Burnell