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CQL Reading Group: Practicing Peace

This year, the Concern for Quaker Living reading group will focus on Practicing Peace: a devotional walk through the Quaker tradition, by Catherine Whitmire

CQL Book Group Fall 2026

This year's '26-'27 selection is Practicing Peace: a devotional walk through the Quaker tradition by Catherine Whitmire, a 2007 text that may shake (Quake?) you up and help you to experience more vitality, yet more peace in all your endeavors. You'll experience the wisdom of many voices in the Quaker tradition. You are welcome to join the group at any time, whether you've attended prior reading groups or not.

On November 2, we will be covering Chapter One, Last Two Sections, and Chapter Two, First Three Sections: 
Practicing Peace with Ourselves Through 
.Leadings and Discernment .Faith 
Practicing Peace in Our Everyday Lives Through 
.Love  .Parenting and Mentoring .Community

Practicing Peace is not generally available new online. We invite you to borrow it from a Friend, seek a review copy online from Amazon (go to the title and to "Other Sellers on Amazon" for any of 30 copies as of this writing), find it at Better World Books, check the book table at Brooklyn Meeting, or read it as an ebook on Internet Archive. https://search.worldcat.org/title/1392316199

We will meet in the BMM Social Hour Room and on Zoom. Same link as always: 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8457685468?pwd=09rFhjDEpQHqb5QIjHwLIeVKoBhlXL.1&omn=85409495210

Meeting ID: 845 768 5468
Passcode: 570880

Our 2026-2027 CQL Reading Group Calendar
Monday, October 5, 2026
Monday, November 2, 2026
Monday, December 7, 2026
Monday, January 4, 2027
Monday, February 1, 2027
Monday, March 1, 2027
Monday, April 5, 2027
Monday, May 3, 2027
Monday, June 7, 2027

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