Spiritual Exploration, Enrichment and Dialogue
(SEED)
Tacoma Friends fourth Sunday Second Hour is devoted to spiritual enrichment and exploration. These sessions are both in-person and via Zoom using the same link as Meeting for Worship. Upcoming topics are:
Sunday, January 25 – Remembering Michael Parker. We will hold a time of remembrance to honor Tacoma Friend, Michael Parker, who died on December 25, 2025. We will share our memories of the ways Michael brought his unique contribution and spirit to our meeting and how he touched our hearts individually. When the moment feels right, we will consider these words and query.
“Death often faces us with the most difficult of questions, yet it may be the occasion of our most profound insights into the meaning of life. Although life instinctively avoids death, death is not the opposite of life. It is essential to the ongoing, changing nature of life.” North Pacific Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice, p. 230.
Query – How do we embrace dying and death so that we may live our lives more fully?
To attend, simply stay after Meeting for Worship and join either on the Zoom link or in person at the meeting house. Second Hour begins around 11:45. There will be a short break with refreshments between Worship and Second Hour.
Future topics include February 22 on Inclusivity and March 22 on Diminishment. More details to come.
Send additional topic suggestions to tacomafriendsmeeting@gmail.com
Friday, February 6, 2026, 6-8 PM, Living While Dying
This open conversation will be facilitated by Friend, Louisa Beal at the meetinghouse and on Zoom. The topic is “Living While Dying.” Check back here for the Zoom link which will be added soon.
TFM Active Hope Book Circle
All are invited to join a Book Circle follow-up and continuation of our last quarter TFM Common Read and Dialogue, “Active Hope,” by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone. We will be taking a 6-session deeper dive for exploration, queries, dialogue and enrichment every 2nd and 4th Wednesday online via Zoom from 6:30pm to 8pm beginning January 14th and ending March 25th with a potential in-person “wrap up” if there is enough interest. Doug Taylor will facilitate. Here is the Zoom link for these meetings: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81038742647
Each of the six sessions will focus on specific chapters of the book along with study questions/queries. Study questions are here, and the discussion plan follows:
Session 1: Jan 14 Intro, Chp 1 & 2
Session 2: Jan 28 Chp. 3
Session 3: Feb 11 Chp. 4
Session 4: Feb 25 Chp. 5, 6, 7 & 8
Session 5: Mar 11 Chp. 9 & 10
Session 6: Mar 25 Chp. 11, 12 & 13
All are invited and welcome! No prior participation and no reading nor reflection required, although warmly encouraged!
