Sarasota Monthly Meeting
of the Religious Society of Friends

Our Meetinghouse is blessed to have retired Swarthmore College professor and wintering Friend, Jerry Frost in our midst during the Winter season.

For the past two years Jerry has given serveral in a series of Quakerly Adult Education classes.

Below are links to each class from 2009 and 2010.

Exploring the Quaker Way
by Jerry Frost
Recorded in March 2010

March 7th

March 14th

March 21st

War, Religion and Peace

Here is a brief description of the course:

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all promise to bring peace but have also legitimated war. Adherents of these three religions have used sacred writings in support of crusades (holy wars), just wars, and pacifism. These three approaches to war, created before the emergence of modern states and nationalism, remain the foundation of contemporary religious-ethical thinking about war. The classes will deal with three subjects: Biblical and Qu'ranic exegesis, the creation of religious traditions and institutions, and ethics. My hope is that Friends will learn about the strengths and limitations of using religion to evaluate armed conflicts.