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Stephanie Stuckwisch
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What is Membership?
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I currently serve on my meetings Oversight Committee. We are struggling with the meaning and parameters of membership. Specifically, what about the membership of persons who have not attended or…Continue

Started this discussion. Last reply by David Carl 6th month 25, 2011.

 

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Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on James C Schultz's blog post 'There is nothing too insignificant for God'
Thank you for this post. I think we put God into too small a box when we assume He doesn't care about the sparrow.
1st month 26
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Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on Alison Irving's blog post 'Coastlands'
Thank you, Friend, for sharing this. The image of residing on the border has always spoken to me.
12th month 27, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Karen Mercer's discussion 'Convergence Movement/ The purpose of Quaker Quaker'
I love Quaker tradition, the writings of the first Friends and reading the Bible because they provide deep roots that nourish me. I also recognize a responsibility to approach them, as much as I am able, in the Spirit through they were given. Online…
12th month 17, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on funnel101's blog post 'The Return'
Thank you.
12th month 10, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Forrest Curo's discussion 'from a Letter to Ministry & Oversight of...'
I agree with what you've said. Tomorrow, we have a called meeting for business. There is only heartbreaking and potentially divisive item on the agenda. I've already decided to spend most of the meeting in prayer because no amount of…
12th month 10, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on Cathy Barney's blog post 'Please, use my brokenness'
Thank you for your message. The word broken has entered my prayers over and over again in the last months - brokenness as a step toward wholeness/holiness.
11th month 2, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Caroline Whitbeck's discussion '"Primitive Christianity", What Did Original Friends Mean by it?'
We may be standing too close to see what we have to offer others. I was recently told that a protestant denomination (I think it was the Methodists) has Margaret Fell's entire "Women's Speaking Justified" on their website. A…
10th month 12, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Caroline Whitbeck's discussion '"Primitive Christianity", What Did Original Friends Mean by it?'
A F/friend of mine described our "method" to a curious Buddhist, "we just throw them into the deep end of the silence and see if they sink or swim." G. Fox did give advice on how to sit in worship. His letter to Lady Claypoole…
10th month 12, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Caroline Whitbeck's discussion '"Primitive Christianity", What Did Original Friends Mean by it?'
Thank you, Forrest. You expressed it much more clearly than I did.
10th month 2, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Caroline Whitbeck's discussion '"Primitive Christianity", What Did Original Friends Mean by it?'
I use multiple translations. I wasn't trying to imply that all gifts are equal, far from it. As I read 12:12-26, each person has a gift to contribute, but a particular gift does not make one person more important than another. Within the the…
10th month 2, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Caroline Whitbeck's discussion '"Primitive Christianity", What Did Original Friends Mean by it?'
I wasn't just referring to the gifts of the Spirit when I mentioned 1 Corinthians.  It also speaks of being part of one body and being equal before God.
9th month 26, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch replied to Caroline Whitbeck's discussion '"Primitive Christianity", What Did Original Friends Mean by it?'
Interesting that I'm the first to come forward on this one. I need to confess that I don't feel particularly eloquent on the subject. Early Friends were both Biblical and experiential. I think their image of "primitive…
9th month 17, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on Joan Gunn Broadfield's blog post 'How are we led to conversation?'
Last spring I was at a retreat attended by both evangelical and liberal Friends. One of our leaders invited us to bring all our vulnerabilities, speak honestly and to "listen in tongues".
9th month 11, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on Inela Perú's blog post 'La experiencia del encuentro con la LUZ'
Been a long time since I've used my Spanish. If anyone out there finds an error in the translation, please feel free to correct me. I'm using the NRSV to translate the biblical verses. Here goes: Personal experience of the Light creates a…
9th month 11, 2011
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Stephanie Stuckwisch commented on H. Wayne Williams's blog post 'Support our precious agents for Christ. Our future may depend on it.'
Oddly enough, I just sent a message to f/Friend expressing much the same view. It isn't only NYYM, but seems to be a malaise through much of  the RSoF. A plant cut off from it's roots dies.
9th month 11, 2011
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Christine Betz Hall left a comment for Stephanie Stuckwisch
Hi Stephanie, Thanks for connecting here on QuakerQuaker. I look forward to seeing you again at the retreat: Inner Fire—prayer and reflection to kindle, illuminate or renew your service or ministry, Nov 4-6. Info here. If you think of any…
9th month 11, 2011

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I first discovered Friends when I was a teenager. The idea of an unmediated encounter with God called to me. After numerous bumps and detours, I formally joined the Religious Society of Friends in 1984. Currently, I am a member of Salmon Bay Friends Meeting in Seattle, WA, USA. I am unabashedly Christocentric.

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Fruit Out of Season

I have learned to pay attention when multiple spiritual nudges arrive in short order.

The first concerned a patient at my clinic. Long before any of us ever met him, for reasons unknown, this man decided that he was an invalid. He pretty much refused to get out of bed. He became morbidly obese. Then came diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and kidney failure.

Any suggestion that there might be a psychological issue was rejected. Referrals to counselors were…

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Posted on 5th mo. 3, 2011 at 12:07am — 1 Comment

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On Doing Nothing

For the first time, I found myself asked to explain my faith and practiice to coworkers. Not due to any spiritual revival, but because a cable TV program has a Quaker character. Unfortunately, it was not Fox’s compelling and revolutionary insights that fascinated them. Instead they were stuck on one point - “You sit for an hour and do nothing?”



I explained that we pray, we meditate, but most important, we listen.



“So, you really don’t do anything for an hour.”



I spoke… Continue

Posted on 2nd mo. 19, 2011 at 2:14pm — 12 Comments

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As the Spirit Moves

All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each individually just as the Spirit chooses. - 1 Corinthians 12:11



Alison has been attending my meeting for the last 5 years. An elderly woman, she moved to Seattle to live near her sons and their families. I agreed to drive her to meeting on First Day.



At our first meeting, is was clear that she suffered from expressive aphasia.… Continue

Posted on 11th mo. 28, 2010 at 4:11pm

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And A Little Child Shall Lead Them

This morning at meeting for worship a toddler reminded me of an experience that I knew as a child and was reintroduced to by my daughter. It seems I need a remedial lesson.



Beatrix, our newest attender, has just learned to pull herself to a standing position. She approaches the world with awe and wonder. Her aim to touch, taste and explore. She does so with absolute trust. She celebrates with squeals and hands beating a rhythm on a nearby chair. Fearless, she crawls forward unaware of… Continue

Posted on 7th mo. 25, 2010 at 7:30pm

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At 4:41pm on 9th mo. 11, 2011, Christine Betz HallChristine Betz Hall said…

Hi Stephanie,

Thanks for connecting here on QuakerQuaker. I look forward to seeing you again at the retreat: Inner Fire—prayer and reflection to kindle, illuminate or renew your service or ministry, Nov 4-6. Info here.

If you think of any other ways to reach out to those who would wish to be there, please let me know.

Peace and all good,

Chris

At 4:37pm on 9th mo. 10, 2011, JonJon said…

Hi Stephanie

Thanks for being open to answer some questions.

What do you mean by "Christocentric"? I could guess, but seeing I am learning, may as well ask. :)

Could someone be "Christocentric" and not read the Bible? Call themselves Christian? Not believe that Jesus is the son of God?

 

For me, I admire Jesus as a teacher, and try to live his teachings as best I can. Those teachings I learned through hearing people talk about the teachings and their understandings of them, and from seeing some very devout and "holy" people be & act. I grew up within a church & have attempted to read the Bible several times. But what in my heart I believe to be his path and what I read in the Bible... just don't match up.

 

How would you see the liberal branch be more in touch with their roots?

 

Thank you for your thoughts.

Jon

At 5:26pm on 7th mo. 25, 2011, Allistair LomaxAllistair Lomax said…

Thanks Stephanie, I've added you as member of the NFF site, and you can find your way back to it @ http://www.nffquaker.org

I wonder if Dan Davenport does remember you.

At 1:36am on 6th mo. 22, 2011, Forrest CuroForrest Curo said…
Purrrrrrrr
At 6:10pm on 12th mo. 28, 2009, Madeleine Cadbury BrownMadeleine Cadbury Brown said…
Nice cat! What's new?

Madeleine
 
 
 

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I'm not a parent, so grain of salt ;) I maintain the opinion that setting a good example from the earliest age is what's important. Consistent rules probably have the best chance of being followed. That's not to say "when…
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