12th mo. 2015 Blog Posts (24)

The Greatest of These is Love, Part 2

Continuing on my sharing of my weekend at Powell House in November I want to share another mini-revelation.  It's very easy to fall into the trap of judging if a "retreat" was good or bad.  Some years seem to have more powerful moments than others but does that make them better?  Opening ourselves up to the Holy Spirit, making ourselves vulnerable, is like undergoing surgery.  After the operation you have to wait for the anesthesia to wear off, then you have to handle the pain and do…

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Added by James C Schultz on 12th mo. 3, 2015 at 7:16pm — No Comments

Is ‘perfection in this life’ possible?

Doug Shoemaker, the Superintendent of Indiana Yearly Meeting, has been writing a series of ‘letters to George Fox’ that appear in the IYM Communicator. I find interest in these letters in considering whether I agree with them and also whether I think he construes George Fox in a way Fox would want to be understood.  In his recent, eighteenth letter, Shoemaker addresses the possibility of human’s achieving perfection, or ‘entire sanctification.’

Dear…

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Added by Doug Bennett on 12th mo. 3, 2015 at 9:12am — 23 Comments

Speaking of Serpents

I live on the Pacific Rim, in Portland, Oregon, which has a Chinese Gate, marking a long history of East-West traffic.  The Dragon is pretty much a powerful creature but more often celebrated than demonized. 

We have parallels in the west, but in Genesis the serpent plays a decidedly negative role.  Although it's a "dragon" that St. George would slay, I think that…

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Added by Kirby Urner on 12th mo. 3, 2015 at 3:00am — No Comments

On the Cusp of Virtual Reality ... The Winds of Change

This morning I read a piece in the Financial Times by Jonathan Margolis entitled "Our Virtual Reality Future is Bigger than it Appears." This technology will be consumer ready and on the market sometime next year. In the article Margolis shares this encounter:

The other night I found myself in the emergency room of a Manhattan hospital. As I waited…

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Added by Keith Saylor on 12th mo. 2, 2015 at 10:42am — 1 Comment

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