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Can Friends schools and meetings better work together?
Can Friends schools and meetings better work together?:
A piece on efforts at a school and meeting in a Philadelphia neighborhood, “Greene Street Friends works to unite congregation and extended school family”:
Children as young as 9 years old, and adults as old as 65, gathered at the Greene Street Friends School Meeting House in Germantown this weekend to discuss the benefits of “taking care of business” the Quaker way.”
Describing spirituality through water
Describing spirituality through water:
Dana Kester-McCabe tells of the effects of deep mediation:
When I go really deep in prayer or meditation the emotional heat of my waking reality is cooled. Spirit calms my passions. Spirit quells my fears. Peace cleanses me.
When ministry is sawdust and sand
When ministry is sawdust and sand:
Among Friends John bemoans those times when the ministry just isn’t cutting it:
I couldn’t leave them unless God reassigned me – they’re my tribe. But I’d looked for food, and gotten sawdust and sand. I longed to hear something said among them that I wasn’t hearing, and the Holy Spirit was not opening my mouth to say it myself.
Is simplicity in the air?
Is simplicity in the air?:
Barbara Smith thinks so over on the QuakerQuaker forums:
As I roam around the web I see many people drawn to reading about Plain dress and simple lifestyles… Are we tired yet of being passive consumers whose only reason for existence is to earn enough money to hand it back to those who make the “stuff” we supposedly have always needed and wanted?
Are Quakers inherently libertarian?
Are Quakers inherently libertarian?:
Matt Hisrich argues that Quakers’ tenets have long included an inherent subversion of the state:
Friends were not only aware that their actions would be interpreted as a challenge to the existing political order but also of the likely consequences of those actions.
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John Wilbur and immediacy or The Way Not Mediated
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The Craving for Simplicity, Meaning and Peace
Started by Barbara Smith in Quaker Talk. Last reply by Anne Lee 12 minutes ago. 3 Replies 0 Likes
I posted this on my blog (at www.Plainlyquaker.wordpress.com) this morning and then it occurred to me that it would be of interest to the Plainness and Simplicity Group here on QQ. However, I can…Continue
Tags: simplicity
One of the reasons I think Quakerism is "hard to do" in our society.
Started by Brad Biggs in Quaker Talk. Last reply by Brad Biggs on 1st day (Sun). 14 Replies 0 Likes
Wondering what other Friends think. The 3 conditions for making close friends mentioned in this article may be why Quakerism is hard to do in our society. It seems difficult for us to create the bonds of community that make for shared, deep…Continue
Tags: covenant, discipleship, community
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Laura Scattergood commented on Laura Scattergood's video
Singing Quakers -- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel in Buffalo Airport
"Didn't my Lord deliver me? I am uplifted by this rendition by students from Friends…"
Rhonda Pfaltzgraff-Carlson posted an event
A Mystic Call: The Second Annual Gathering of Friendly Mystics at Earlham College
6th mo. 6, 2014 at 5pm to 6th mo. 10, 2014 at 1pm
We invite Friends who have had mystical experience to gather for a weekend (6/6 - 6/8) or from…See More
Barbara Smith replied to Barbara Smith's discussion 'The Craving for Simplicity, Meaning and Peace'"Anna Lee - Exactly! I am more and more interested in how we can do that in small ways, not big…"
Clem Gerdelmann posted a blog postThe Case of Constructive vs. Principled
Constructive: Affirming the Einsteins on the Court of Quaker Opinion, we follow the course of…See More
Anne Lee replied to Barbara Smith's discussion 'The Craving for Simplicity, Meaning and Peace'"This is an interesting article! Especially about only wanting to do that which is meaningful. I…"
Laura Scattergood posted a videoSinging Quakers -- Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel in Buffalo Airport
Singing for everybody waiting for the plane at our gate on the way back from our 2011 Canada tour.
Greene Street Friends works to unite congregation and extended school family — NewsWorks
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