Website Map and Quaker-Related Links


Pages on the website (Please click on the dove icon)

Home page (sfquakers.org)
Map and public transportation notes
Quaker Meeting for Worship
Quakers Witnessing for Peace and Social Justice
Welcome to Children
Newsletter and Calendar
Yearly Sequence of Advices & Queries
Clerks, Committees and Persons Responsible to the Meeting
Archive
Space Rentals
Website Map and Links (this page - no link)

External Links (Please click on the dove icon)

Related Organizations (other than Monthly Meetings and Churches in other Quaker branches)
Pacific Yearly Meeting - our association of unprogrammed monthly meetings in California, Nevada, Hawaii, Mexico and Guatemala
College Park Quarterly Meeting - our quarterly gathering of unprogrammed Monthly Meetings in the Northern California and Northern Nevada region
American Friends Service Committee - a charitable organization based on Quaker principles that works worldwide to promote peace, justice, and human dignity.
The AFSC Pacific Mountain Regional Office, located in our Meeting House, focuses on Peace Education, Middle East Peace and has an Emergency and Material Assistance Program that collects and distributes materials to those afflicted by war and natural disasters.
Friends General Conference (FGC) -- North American organization serving unprogrammed Yearly Meetings. Summer Gathering is largest annual conference for unprogrammed Friends. Lots of resources for religious education, anti-racism work, etc.
Ben Lomond Quaker Center - the forested retreat center near Santa Cruz where we have our yearly retreat and that provides programs throughout the year
Friends Committee on National Legislation -- Quaker lobbying group in Washington, D.C. and on which we have a representative
Friends Committee on Legislation of California -- Quaker lobbying group in Sacramento, on which we have a representative
Sierra Friends Center - providing educational programs about spirituality, peace, sustainability, and social action - hosting the Woolman Semester, Sierra Friends Camp and Adult Workshops.
San Francisco Friends School - a K–8 co-educational independent school infused with Quaker values
Friends House -- a continuing care closely-knit, residential retirement community located near Santa Rosa, California.
Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Concerns
Fellowship of Friends of African Descent
Alternatives to Violence Project - offering workshops in prisons and in the larger community that seeks to reduce unresolved conflicts
Non-Violent Peace Force - our members support and participate in this nonpartisan unarmed civilian peacekeeping force composed of trained civilians from around the world
Friends World Committee for Consultation Section of the Americas (English and Spanish) -- En espanol: Comite Mundial de Consulta de los Amigos

 

Other Monthly Meetings and Churches in other Quaker branches
Berkeley Monthly Meeting
Strawberry Creek Monthly Meeting (located in Berkeley)
Palo Alto Monthly Meeting
Marin Monthly Meeting (no website, see www.quakerfinder.org for more info)
Berkeley Friends Church (pastoral Church belonging to Friends United Meeting)
Walnut Creek Friends Church (pastoral Church belonging to Evangelical Friends Church South West)
Friends United Meeting (FUM) - Worldwide organization of mostly pastoral and programmed Friends Yearly Meetings
Evangelical Friends Church South West (EFCSW) - evangelical Yearly Meeting in California, Nevada and Arizona

 

Traditionally Printed Publications
Friends Journal - national monthly magazine of liberal, unprogrammed Friends
Friends Bulletin, the publication of Western Quakers
Quakerbooks.Org - books from the Friends General Conference, the largest online Quaker bookstore in America
Quaker Life - national bi-monthly magazine, published by Friends United Meeting
Quakers United In Publishing (QUIP)- a web guide to Quaker publications

 

More Online Resources
Online version of Faith and Practice maintained by the Pacific Yearly Meeting (see organizations, above) - the fundamental publication setting forth principles and community methods used in our meeting
www.quaker.org - the granddaddy of Quaker websites, with links to all kinds of Quaker organizations
www.quakerquaker.org - blog aggregator, with links to the best of recent blogposts on Quaker themes
Quaker Electronic Archive, maintained by George Amoss Jr., said to be the "first general-purpose Quaker site on the Internet," site containing Quaker writings, basic information about Quakerism and other resources.
Quakerfinder, to locate Meetings in North America

 

Community Blogs and Websites
(with Quaker-related themes, maintained by meeting members and attenders)
What Canst Thou Say? by Robin Mohr.
A relatively low-tech, Green, feminist, convergent Quaker blog. With lots of references to children and the occasional pie recipe. And a Christian conversion story, now in progress.
This is a site for Jim Pilliod to place his ponderings.
Rolene Walker's website describes the walk she and others will make from North America to Chile to celebrate the beauty of the earth starting in spring 2008.
Seams of a Peculiar Queer by cubbie storm
cubbie is a young adult friend who spends a lot of time in self-reflection, contemplating his understanding of god, gender, race, privilege, quakerism, and himself.
Meridian Gallery
Dedicated since 1989 to breaking down racial, cultural, economic and geographic barriers through the arts, Meridian Gallery assumes a tangible responsibility to explore issues and to make spaces where youth and adults can access experientially a widening of the possible.
Tables, Chairs and Oaken Chests by Chris Mohr
Yet another Conservative-leaning liberal Friend. (As in Conservative, not conservative, Friends!) With a title inspired by Jesus Christ Superstar, and topics that include Firstday School lessons, books (mostly Quaker), and events at meeting.