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How did you find your vocation?
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A few months ago, Max Carter asked a handful of Guilford College alumni to write essays on this query: "What are you doing now and how does it relate to your time in the Quaker Leadership Scholars…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by Forrest Curo 1st month 12, 2011.

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"Clothe Yourself in Righteousness" | Jon Watts Videosong

"Clothe Yourself in Righteousness" was recorded in Spring of 2011 in my West Philly apartment for the "Clothe Yourself in Righteousness" project. It features...
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The Story of James Nayler: the Most Controversial Quaker (Song... Not Intended For Children)

"As Jesus to Jerusalem, so James rode into Bristol. Some people thought he'd been unwise; and some said he had blasphemed. But no one claimed James hadn't known what happens when the Christ rides in to any pious city."
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"I saw that, I think...it was the one listed on QQ? It was asking for pictures and stories wasn't it?"
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"Together We Compose This Bloody, Bleeding, Beating Drum" Video Song

Comment on this video and win a free "Clothe Yourself in Righteousness" T-Shirt!! "Together We Compose This Bloody, Bleeding, Beating Drum" is a spoken word ...
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"There's A Spirit in Iraq" (A Tribute to Tom Fox: Christian Peacemaker)

Tom Fox is a Quaker who was taken hostage in Iraq while doing peace work there during the war. This is my letter to him. Free Download: http://bit.ly/ojt4E3 ...
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The Story of James Nayler: the Most Controversial Quaker (Song... Not Intended For Children)

James Nayler was a powerful and respected Quaker preacher, who, at the beginning of the formation of the Religious Society of Friends, traveled extensively p...
9th month 7, 2011
Forrest Curo replied to Jon Watts's discussion 'How did you find your vocation?'
"When I got the dregs of my father's inheritance... I'd been wanting to start a bookstore like AFSC's in San Diego, which is a bit of a backwater where you don't get to see their sort of material in bookstores often. But I had…"
1st month 12, 2011
Isabel Penraeth replied to Jon Watts's discussion 'How did you find your vocation?'
"“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet” (Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993, page 119). I am afraid I…"
1st month 12, 2011
Chel Avery replied to Jon Watts's discussion 'How did you find your vocation?'
"I didn't find my vocation.  My work has found me.  With amazing consistency, anything I've started out to do of my own volition has been a disaster.  Anyplace I've found myself that is truly right and important and…"
1st month 12, 2011
Gwen Giffen replied to Jon Watts's discussion 'How did you find your vocation?'
"This question speaks to me because I have been contemplating a career change for the past several years, and have been coming up with no answer. I feel very much in a rut, but also feel that I am where I am supposed to be right now. I am discontent…"
1st month 12, 2011
Paul A. Smith replied to Jon Watts's discussion 'How did you find your vocation?'
"  I was raised as a step-child of an emotionally and physically abusive step-father.  Part of the way I coped with the abuse was to think of myself as "everychild" and wonder what my life would be like if I were being raised by…"
1st month 12, 2011
Lola Georg replied to Jon Watts's discussion 'How did you find your vocation?'
"Jon - I love that question "Where does my great passion meet the world's great need?" Thank you so much for raising it! There are many answers to the question "How did you find your vocation?" - and for me, it really…"
1st month 11, 2011
Brad Ogilvie replied to Jon Watts's discussion 'How did you find your vocation?'
"I'm not sure I can answer these questions, so much as affirm that they are constant questions for reflection and to stay open.  I have also used the word "avocation" in my counseling work (in the context of we have a job, a…"
1st month 9, 2011

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At 10:50am on 2nd mo. 9, 2012, Karen Mercer said…

I saw that, I think...it was the one listed on QQ? It was asking for pictures and stories wasn't it?

At 10:06pm on 9th mo. 29, 2010, Lola Georg said…
Jon - I love this video from Pendle Hill:
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Great to see you here! It is funny as I assumed you were a member long ago!
 
 
 

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