Julie taking a picture of Francis at bat (Taken with Instagram at Field Of Dreams)
Brothers watching the game (Taken with Instagram at Field Of Dreams)
Baseball Sunday, Francis at bat (Taken with Instagram at Field Of Dreams)
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Many Friends say that they want deep worship, but we are not always good at saying what that means. For me, it is a corporate experience of the presence of the living God―a time of worship that is so drenched in the Spirit that everyone can feel it and we are all changed by the experience.
Taken with Instagram at Benjamin Franklin Bridge
Taken with Instagram at Hampton Inn Convention Center
I have to admit that hearing Friends discuss fundamentalism vs. modernism makes me a bit uneasy. While part of this is my own desire to not be categorized, I feel as though we are being forced into molds that don’t necessarily reflect our core values and understandings.
Marriage roles have changed, and yet marriage’s essential core has not. That’s why Trueblood is right to quote Jeremy Taylor at length. The never-changing case for marriage does not rest upon fixed assumptions about ‘men being men’or about work or sex or any other activities of the flesh.
Quakerism has spiritualized religion even further, doing away with all the religious practices that call to the senses: no music, no incense, no genuflections or sacred bodily movement, no art, no food. Most importantly, perhaps, we’ve done away with the two outward practices that could actually serve as channels back into relation with our landbases, baptism and the Eucharist.
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I no longer seek safety in the silence. Nowadays, I’m ready to be challenged, to be energized, to be led. What I love about the Quaker experience is that it is vast enough to hold the entirety of my journey.
Quakers may not have a creed or articles of faith, but perhaps, partly in relation to the ‘discipline’ of which Geoffrey spoke, it is time to find, not 100 ‘fundamentals’ nor a conflation of the exciting variety of ‘Faith and Practice’ which exists from Yearly Meetings around the world, but a simple form of words which gives some coherence to ourselves and newcomers in explaining what nearly all or most Quakers might generally assent to.
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Quaker Study Centre has launched its augural young adult leadership programme, beginning this summer. The course is designed to develop young people’s leadership skills and authority within Quakerism and wider society. I
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The issue is whether one can become open to the inward light through an act of will, through some kind of effort. Barclay’s view is that the inward light is always working within, but it can be blocked by human willfulness; therefore the first step is to be passive in the presence of the light so that the light can work.
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The Ben Franklin Bridge, from Patco, for my Francis who loves it (Taken with Instagram at Benjamin Franklin Bridge)
