Beacon Hill Friends House

Beacon Hill Friends House (BHFH) is a Quaker center and residential community in downtown Boston, Mass., that provides opportunities for personal growth, spiritual deepening, and collective action.

This fall, nova george, a Brooklyn-based poet, facilitator, and spiritual accompanist, gave the Ernest and Esther Weed Memorial Lecture, titled “Theologically Sound,” about the sacred interaction between music and silence. nova delivered a lecture on truth-seeking, peace, and Quaker history blended with an embodied practice in deep listening and play.

BHFH has continued to welcome many talented facilitators for its “MIDWEEK: Experiments in Faithfulness” program, a weekly facilitated spiritual practice. This season, facilitators have offered a diverse array of practices for our attendees ranging from cultivating active hope amidst climate grief to spiritual companioning.

Currently, the house’s residential community has 20 members, ranging in age from 21 to 70.   

Upcoming repairs to the building’s exterior are funded by a City of Boston Community Preservation grant.

As a result of funding from Friends Foundation for the Aging and Obadiah Brown’s Benevolent Fund, BHFH is expanding the Vocational Discernment Program from a workbook and retreat focused on young adults to also assist an intergenerational as well as an older adult audience. In the fall, a pilot vocational discernment workshop for older adults took place, in addition to an intergenerational program.

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