2025 SCYM Annual Sessions - April 13-16 Online - April 17-20 in Person & Online - Creating Collective Integrity Through Personal Experience
April 13-16 Online - April 17-20 in Person & Online
Creating Collective Integrity Through Personal Experience
Over 100 Friends met online and in person under the theme above and as defined below.
"Collective integrity is the idea that integrity is a responsibility shared by everyone and that each person's actions and choices contribute to it. With this theme, we speak towards the ways personal struggles, actions, and leadings can catalyze positive shifts in community. Our personal experiences can lead us all to take action, but oftentimes we don’t know how. Through our sense of shared responsibility communities can take action to address injustices throughout the world. In 1647 George Fox had a vision about continuing revelation and experience. “Thus when God doth work who shall let it? And this I knew experimentally.”
2025 SCYM Epistle to Friends Everywhere
2025 SCYM Minute Regarding the Trump Administration
2025 SCYM Minute on Gaza
2025 SCYM Annual Sessions Minutes
Please see the ADVANCE DOCUMENTS for all the other documents accepted and approved during the meeting.
Video of the Keynote Speech by J.E. McNeil will be available through a link here soon.
J. E. talked about her experiences "Speaking Truth to Power" in both Texas and Washington D.C., as well as her work with the law, particularly with "election protection," and her years traveling among Friends, Mennonites, Baptists, Mormons, and others.
J. E. McNeil Bio:
J. E. McNeil grew up in Houston, TX, where she attended Rice University and the University of Houston Law School. She has lived in Washington, DC since 1978 where she joined the Friends Meeting of Washington, practiced law, and worked at the Center on Conscience & War, Inc. traveling among Friends (and others) and lobbying Congress. She has been active in the committees of FGC, FUM, Friends Publishing, and Baltimore Yearly Meeting as well as the Friends Meeting of Washington.
