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Greg Woods: Meaningful Work and Long-Term Commitment
Greg Woods: Meaningful Work and Long-Term Commitment to Change. As I am about to end two plus years of leading a service-learning program, I am reflecting on my time here and the lessons I have learned. A common phrase I hear a lot is “meaningful work”. Pastors, youth group leaders, and parents have all use this term when they call to inquire about my programs. Over time I have found out… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 10th mo. 7, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments
Michael Jay on the FUM Emerging Leaders conference
Michael Jay on the FUM Emerging Leaders conference. One might comment upon the quality of the ‘emerging leaders’. To be honest, several of the students seemed quite emerged to me, having been active in leadership and ministry for years... In the room, there were several new, experimental meetings represented. We enjoyed lively discussion about where faith meets practice… outside of the various parts… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 9th mo. 24, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Martin Kelley - Getting a horse to drink
Martin Kelley - Getting a horse to drink. There were about seventy-five people in the room for Interim Meeting sessions. I was probably the third or fourth youngest. That's two whole generations that are largely missing from PYM leadership. I know I shouldn't be surprised; it's not a new phenomenon. But if you had told me twenty years ago that I'd be entering middle age and could still walk into a room full… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 9th mo. 16, 2010 at 10:25am — No Comments
Micah B: Bridging the Generational Divide in Ministry
Micah B: Bridging the Generational Divide in Ministry. While there are many in my generation who are being called to dedicate their lives to God's service, many Millenials who are called to the ministry are called to forms of ministry that the older generations do not easily recognize. Our ministry often takes place in diverse networks, rather than in a strictly congregational context; we… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 9th mo. 9, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments
David Johns: Seminary education & postmodernity
David Johns: Seminary education & postmodernity. Much of our formation is oriented toward helping keep alive institutions and organizations (movements, denominations, et al.) that have largely run their course. (Some of these, perhaps many, are structured appropriately for the 1940′s or 50′s and are speaking to cultural realities and religious sensibilities of such eras–and if our… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 8th mo. 31, 2010 at 12:05am — No Comments
Tania: The Need for older and younger Friends in meeting
Tania: The Need for older and younger Friends in meeting. It came to my mind that a Meeting functions best when there’s a strong segment of older Friends and a strong segment of younger Friends as well. Meetings are like a body of water: we need the depth of older Friends to keep us grounded in Spirit and the current of younger Friends to prevent stagnancy.…Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 8th mo. 22, 2010 at 10:14am — 1 Comment
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage 2010 Epistle
Quaker Youth Pilgrimage 2010 Epistle. Perhaps the most significant factor to set QYP apart from any other experience, Quaker or otherwise, is the sense of immersion which comes from living in a close-knit and, in many respects, isolated community for as long as we have. Our use of music as well as our introduction to compassionate listening added strength to the foundation of… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 8th mo. 13, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments
Wess Daniels: Quaker Youth Pilgrimage visits Camas Friends
Wess Daniels: The Quaker Youth Pilgrimage visits Camas Friends Church. I am really proud of our meeting because it is open to doing “convergent” activities like this even though it may stretch us at times (or maybe because of it). And quite frankly, this was just a lot of fun. I don’t know a lot of programmed meetings who are willing to open their doors like this and so I feel really… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 8th mo. 11, 2010 at 10:00am — No Comments
Kevin C didn't have a good time at yearly meeting
Kevin C didn't have a good time at yearly meeting. I saw this at Yearly Meeting and my impressions were confirmed by other Friends I spoke with privately. Several threw their hands up in the air, stating that this had been the way things always had been ever since they'd been attending. It is from these conversations that I understood the dysfunction was systemic and totally… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 8th mo. 10, 2010 at 6:26pm — No Comments
Ashley W on a summer spent released for ministry
Ashley W on a summer spent released for ministry. I had to figure out what a life of ministry looked like on a day-to-day basis. Frequently, it involved waking up, going for a run, having breakfast, spending time in prayer, and catching up on emails and phone calls. I planned events and workshops, spent time reading and writing (though not as much as I expected!), and took a lot of naps. Some days my life… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 8th mo. 10, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments
Spreading the Lessons Learned inside the Liberal Buble
so younger than me, and it was interesting to compare how a younger
generation's perspective was both different and similar to that of my
own. We covered a wide variety of subjects in a relatively short period
of…
Added by Kevin Camp on 8th mo. 8, 2010 at 1:55pm — No Comments
Enabling Believers or Respecting Freedom of Choice?
Q: Why don't ______________ go to church during the summertime?
A: They don't have to.
This same conundrum, modified slightly, could easily apply to many liberal Unprogrammed Friends, regardless of the season or the time of year. I make light of this not to raise the specter of collective guilt, but… Continue
Added by Kevin Camp on 7th mo. 28, 2010 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment
Angelina Conti on the Quaker youth book and cross-branch work
Angelina Conti on the Quaker youth book and cross-branch work. From my work on the youth book I’ve developed a rough toolkit for cross-branch and cross-cultural work which I think is applicable outside the Quaker world. It’s a work in progress, but here are the tools more or less in order: Prepare and educate yourself in order to cultivate cultural sensitivity; cultivate your own… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 7th mo. 28, 2010 at 4:14am — No Comments
Membership Transfer Request Letter
Attention to Business, and Friends approved my transfer request; the clerk will be sending a letter to BHFM soon. I would like to share this letter widely not just with members of Durham Friends Meeting and Beacon Hill Friends Meeting, but with all my fellow Friends and friends who… Continue
Added by Claire R on 7th mo. 26, 2010 at 8:09pm — No Comments
Aimee McAdams on writing the epistle for the Wichita YAF Gathering
Aimee McAdams on writing the epistle for the Wichita YAF Gathering (Friends Journal). I wrote in my journal:
“Lord we have finished the epistle. There are parts I like. There are parts I wish were cleaner. I do not know if everyone will feel in unity with it. I hope and pray that Friends will feel the truth and meaning and spirit behind the words. I pray that we are open to receiving… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 7th mo. 21, 2010 at 12:59pm — No Comments
Micah Bales - Setting off on the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage
Micah Bales - Setting off on the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage. The great challenge that I see before me, and for which I beg your prayers, is this: I am called to be like good potter's clay. I am to be yielded, receptive to whatever shape the Potter chooses to give me; yet I am also to be firm enough that I hold my given form, even against great external pressure. I pray that I… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 7th mo. 15, 2010 at 9:27am — No Comments
On Spiritual Gatherings
Kevin Camp: On Spiritual Gatherings, Retreats, Conferences, And Camps. I've been reflecting recently on the nature of conferences, gatherings, retreats, or camps. For me, at least, attending such functions almost always proves fruitful in all sorts of ways. Making deep, emotionally satisfying connections with other Friends is always welcome. After arriving home, I feel charged and driven, even… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 6th mo. 29, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments
Micah Bales: The stretching of cross-branch gatherings
Micah's Ministry Newsletter #20 - YAF Gathering 2010 etc. It is safe to say that each one of us was uncomfortable some of the time, and I know for a fact that some Friends came away from the event feeling that it was a "mostly Liberal" gathering, while others came away feeling that it was an "Evangelical-oriented" conference. I think this speaks to the prophetic power of Christ's… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 6th mo. 26, 2010 at 3:00am — No Comments
An Argument for Comprehensive Religious Ed
Joyce Ketterer, in Quaker Theology: When, at age 19, as an already avowed Quaker, I finally learned that much of that information was outright false I felt deeply betrayed... Despite intensive Quaker experience at the monthly and yearly meeting levels as well as through Friends General Conference, I was failed by the Quaker adults in charge of my religious education. The word “failed” here seems… Continue
Added by QuakerQuaker on 6th mo. 19, 2010 at 6:00pm — 6 Comments
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