This is a nice bit of ecu­meni­cal fel­low­ship: the first syn­a­gogue in York, Eng­land, since a pogrom 800 years ago meets at the Friends meet­ing­house. (Also as some­one who lives in the North­east U.S., it seems incred­i­ble a city the size of York wouldn’t have mul­ti­ple syn­a­gogues and that events 800 years ago still shape the city’s reli­gious life.)

Philadel­phia Year­ly Meet­ing has post­ed a use­ful list of reli­gious edu­ca­tion resources for meet­ings plan­ning their fall programs. 

I’m usu­al­ly aller­gic to any­thing that tries to tidy up Quak­er faith and prac­tice into the SPICES mnemon­ic but I real­ly like my friend Gene Hill­man’s look at their ori­gins in bib­li­cal and ear­ly Quak­er faith.

From Kathy Hersh, Quak­ers in DeLand, Flori­da, gave away 500 books as a response to the culling of Black-history books from local libraries. 

Is the AI hype cycle start­ing to come down? Cer­tain­ly it’s a bit pre­ma­ture to write any­thing off, but these aren’t good num­bers for AI fanboys.

Friends Jour­nal is start­ing to look for arti­cles for our Jan­u­ary issue on For­give­ness.