Takoma Park Friends Meeting-Preparative gathered on 6/24/2018 at the Dance Exchange in Takoma Park, Maryland. We heard queries and advices from the 2013 draft Baltimore Yearly Meeting Faith and Practice on equality. We heard appreciation for the meeting’s gifts to Parents of Special Needs Adults. We heard of the tension between being competitive and compromising. We heard regret for society’s focus on the rich and famous, with the good works of the poor covered as an afterthought. We heard of the social value of taking part in continuing education, which provides an opportunity for people of different backgrounds to mix. We heard of how racial equity is an enormous issue, and of the danger of trying to deal with it with small responses. We heard of how speaking in positive terms of those who are different applies to those who simply have opinions different from our own, especially when those others may have poor opinions of us. We heard of how stands that we disagree with may be understandable when we learn the reasons for them.
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