This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm but you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
This Sunday our featured speaker will be Dan Cooperstock. Dan is one of the only active members of Toronto Oasis who is still also active in a religion – the Toronto Quaker Meeting. He has been involved with Quakers since 1979, joining as a member in 1981.
Dan was somewhat surprised at the level of strong anti-religious feeling expressed in reaction to the recent talk he introduced by Karen Armstrong, which didn’t seem to distinguish between harmful aspects of religions, and liberal religious traditions that he did not see as at all harmful, and that he respected. So, he thought it might be helpful to speak to us about what Quakerism is, and why it is still meaningful to him.
Dan will also talk about what being a non-theist and atheist Quaker means to him, and how he and the many other non-theist Quakers interpret and translate more traditional Christian language within Quakerism.
Dan Cooperstock is the Toronto Oasis Treasurer, an atheist Quaker, and a software entrepreneur, writing and selling software for churches and charities.
Please RSVP on meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/mtkqxrycccbfb/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fa-R5G-W13GXApefUIvzkzKybJxKXTSP/view?usp=sharing
The PowerPoint slides used in the talk are also available as a PDF at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jBk0vHvRiU83T1A7nHaIEb_qxOkWdvcl/view?usp=sharing