2025 SCYM Workshop Submissions
We invite you to submit a proposal for workshops that align with our theme, "Creating Collective Integrity Through Personal Experience." This theme explores how our personal struggles, actions, and leadings can inspire positive change within our communities and beyond. Workshops should reflect on how individual experiences contribute to shared responsibility and collective action, fostering integrity in our personal and communal lives. Whether your focus is spiritual reflection, practical action, or creative expression, we welcome diverse ideas to inspire and empower the SCYM community.
Due date for workshop proposals: 4/1/25 - Click "Read more" for the workshop submission form if you do not see it below.
Friends across the country are doing many things to resist the attempts of the present administration to violate the rights of people in the United States. SCYM has joined with other Yearly Meetings and congregations in a suit filed against the Department of Homeland Security blocking the Trump administration's policy that permitted indiscriminate immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship. The latest news from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting follows:
"The case PYM and our neighboring yearly meetings filed against the Department of Homeland Security has taken a big step forward! The U.S. District Court of Maryland ruled in our favor by blocking the Trump administration’s policy that permitted indiscriminate immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship. This preliminary injunction is a crucial step in upholding the right of all people to worship without fear. However, the ruling applies only to the plaintiffs and is a temporary action. Even so, we are encouraged as it sets a strong precedent as the case moves forward.
This suit is a single step in a march toward seeking justice in the current state in our country. There may be more that is ours to do. Meetings can support the lawsuit in different ways. They can also begin the powerful Quaker practice of discernment, seeking possible next steps."
Use the links in PhYM's text to see ways PhYM suggests for Friends to discern further steps. See below for more suggestions for action.