Quaker Guests Visiting Guilford
March 26-31 - Peggy Morrison & Peterson Toscano in GSO
You're Invited: A Week of Quaker Guests (March 26-31)
Friends,
We are so excited to announce two very special guests coming in just a couple weeks to Guilford College: Peggy Morrison and Peterson Toscano.
Peggy and Peterson are both leading Quakers, creative thinkers and both are gifted Quaker ministers.
Peggy Morrison is a recorded minister from Salem, Oregon. She is the founding pastor of Freedom Friends Church, a semi-programmed, lightly pastoral meeting that "declares itself as Passionately Christ-Centered, Passionately Quaker, and Passionately Inclusive." She is the author of a number of inspiring and challenging books she calls narrative Quaker theology. Her two most recent books, Miracle Motors: A Pert Near True Story and Le Flambeau School for Driving, speak beautifully to the times we are in all the while speaking across Friends' differences.
Peterson Toscano is a "quirky queer Quaker concerned with human rights and comedy." He asks himself and his audiences unusual and stimulating questions: Who are the gender outlaws in the Bible? What is a queer response to climate change? and How can comedy help us better understand our most tragic losses? Peterson is a great storyteller, teacher, and subversive theologian that will keep you on your toes.
Read more below for itineraries and visitors' bios.
Itineraries for their Visits
Peggy Morrison's Visit
Morning Message during Meeting for Worship
Sunday morning, March 26th at 11am at First Friends Meeting
2100 W Friendly Ave, Greensboro, NC 27403
Book Reading and Discussion of Miracle Motors
Tuesday evening, March 28 at 7:00pm at Scuppernong Books,
304 S. Elm St., Greensboro, NC 27401
Public Message from Peggy Morrison
Wednesday evening, March 29 at 7:00pm in the Carnegie Room of Hege Library at Guilford College, 5800 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC 27410
Peterson Toscano's Visit
"Everything is Connected—An Evening of Stories, most weird, many true"
Friday evening, March 31 at 6:30pm in Dana Auditorium, Guilford College
5800 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC 27410
----More About Our Visitors----
Peggy Senger Morrison, Prolific Publisher of Truth, Provocateur of Grace
Peggy Senger Morrison is a free-lance provocateur of grace, a Gospel privateer, and a motorcycle mystic. She is a recorded Friends minister and was the founding pastor of Freedom Friends Church, a Christ-centered, inclusive, pastoral Quaker Meeting in Salem Oregon that declares itself as Passionately Christ-Centered, Passionately Quaker, and Passionately Inclusive. In addition to being a preacher, counselor, and teacher, Peggy is a prolific Publisher of Truth, including her blog, “A Silly Poor Gospel.” She is the author of "Miracle Motors: A Pert Near True Story,” and “Le Flambeau School of Driving,” twin tomes of narrative theology. She also edited with Margery Post Abbott the book “Walk Worthy of your Calling: Quakers and the Traveling Ministry.” A professional counselor for 20 years, her major focus was trauma healing, doing three extended practicums among Quakers in Central Africa. Peggy is presently ministering in higher education, helping to run community-college based, high school completion programs for super-marginalized youth. Twice a mother, once a grandmother, she is delighted to be married to her partner in ministry and crime, the beautiful and talented Alivia Biko.
Visit Her Blog At http://sillypoorgospel.blogspot.com/
See her at:
Morning Message during Meeting for Worship
Sunday morning, March 26th at 11am at First Friends Meeting
2100 W Friendly Ave, Greensboro, NC 27403
Book Reading and Discussion of Miracle Motors
Tuesday evening, March 28 at 7:00pm at Scuppernong Books,
304 S. Elm St., Greensboro, NC 27401
Public Message from Peggy Morrison
Wednesday evening, March 29 at 7:00pm in the Carnegie Room of Hege Library at Guilford College, 5800 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC 27410
Peterson Toscano, LGBTQ+ and Climate Change Activist, Quaker Comedian, One-Man Show
Peterson Toscano's unique personal journey led him into performance art. After spending 17 years and over $30,000 on three continents attempting to de-gay himself through gay conversion therapy, he came to his senses and came out a quirky queer Quaker concerned with human rights and comedy. He asks himself and his audiences unusual and stimulating questions: Who are the gender outlaws in the Bible? What is a queer response to climate change? and How can comedy help us better understand our most tragic losses? Peterson is on a mission to connect with his audiences in deeply personal ways stirring up hope and purpose in a rapidly changing world. He lives in Central Pennsylvania with his husband, Glen Retief!
Visit his website at https://petersontoscano.com/
See him at:
"Everything is Connected—An Evening of Stories, most weird, many true"
Friday evening, March 31 at 6:30pm in Dana Auditorium, Guilford College
5800 W. Friendly Ave., Greensboro, NC 27410
Experience the artful, playful, outrageously funny, and deeply moving storytelling craft of Peterson Toscano. Connecting contemporary issues to his own bizarre personal experiences, literature, science, and even the odd Bible story, Peterson takes his audience on an off-beat mental mind trip. A shapeshifter, he transforms right before your eyes into a whole cast of comic characters who explore the serious worlds of gender, sexuality, privilege, religion, and environmental justice.