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Dana Kester-McCabe on giving up for lent

Quakers don’t typically follow the traditional church calendar year. Dana explains why she’s observing lent this and shares what she’s giving up.

I am hoping that this Lenten discipline will last beyond Easter. One of the reason early Quakers rejected things like Lent was that they felt that they had become empty rituals.

How Quakerism Began from Max Carter (QuakerSpeak)

Jon Watts launches the first video in his QuakerSpeak project, exploring the origins and contemporary community of Quakerism.  First up, an interview with Guilford College’s Max Carter.

Doug Bennett in different Quaker styles and volunteer/staff issues

Doug Bennett reflects on national board meetings that can bring together very different types of Friends:

Friends meetings and churches are so comfortable with their own style—small in scale, and wholly volunteer—that they can be ill at ease with the ways of a large organization and the program activities of paid staff. 

Phil Lord on @AFSC_info and Continuing Revelation

From the incoming board chair of the U.S. peace group:

For me, the miracle of Quakerism is that a humble and unexceptional group of people have the audacity to sit together in silence, believing and waiting to hear from God.

Robin Mohr: In Celebration of Bivocational Ministry

Robin wants to bring a new term into wider Quaker use:

Bivocational ministry is quintessentially Quaker, but many meetings and churches are struggling with it. The survival of the Religious Society of Friends in this century depends on us getting this right.