June 2012
A Passionate and Determined Quest for Adequacy:...
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.
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Gil George: One Quaker's Perspective on...
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.
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$The Never-Changing Case for Marriage -...
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.
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Steven Davison: Obstacles to Quaker Earthcare «...
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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Rachel Ernst: Energized by Truth (FGC)
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.
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Trevor Bending: To be a Quaker today (Nayler)
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...
Young Quaker leadership programme launched inn UK
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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Jim Wilson; Robert Barclay and Quaker Quietism
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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NYT: Christian Leaders Are Powerhouses on Twitter
Many of their inspirational messages get retweeted at phenomenal rates. Best observation: the Bible is arguably made for Twitter, with verses inn the KJV averaging 100 characters. http://dlvr.it/1fp1My
Home
Two mile walk home in a moment and apparently we’re under tornado watch? Oh brother.
One block to go, winds picking up but no funnel clouds yet!
May 2012
Went out for walk around block, stumbled on attempted bank robbery (at least that’s passerby consensus on major police presence) #bigcity
But then in my small town police recently apprehended idiot who had robbed same bank 5 yrs earlier. Had kid in getaway car that 1st time.
Jane Harries: Community and Challenge
And so we all went away with questions and challenges – a website to look up, a book to read, a determination to get rid of some clutter or to join with other local groups to work for sustainability and economic justice. Above all we were reminded that the basis for our actions should at all times spring from love for one another and for the Earth – without which our actions are meanginless and...
Aye, ye #Quakers, does thee always need to be so serious?
Neck sore today. Every time I turn around I feel I’m doing a Dr Strangelove impersonation. Stop me if I start talking ab “ze Doomsday bum.”
As Memorial Day Nears, a Single Image That...
Lily Burana reflects on an eight year old photo that has come to represent modern grief: ” I believe this photo has had such a long viral life not just because it is so honest but also because it is so modern. During a spouse’s deployment, your laptop is your battle buddy. Your sense of connection and emotional well-being is sustained via e-mail, Facebook, Skype and Instagram. It appears,...
It’s a few minutes to 11pm and I’ve found Theo awake. He informs me tonight’s the first annual National No Sleep Day.
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Looking for song suggestions for my Friday’s Here playlist. Fast, loud, okay, smart sensitive, okay if decent bass, extra points for nsfw.
Being civilized, I’m actually going to eat lunch on East Coast time today.
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Kevin Camp: When an Attender is a Sex Offender
The Meeting continues to deal with the fallout. Three listening sessions have been scheduled. A majority of voices have resolved to allow a sex offender to Worship with us, albeit with severe strings attached. Yet, questions remain. How will we handle something like this in the future?
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Ben Jarman: Why? How?
Somewhere in the middle of all this, I started to go and see a counsellor. I also attended different religious groups. Some of these were helpful, and they provided time to reflect, but in most cases I felt I was being offered answers to questions I had not actually asked.
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Query from C Wess Daniels: Hav
Query from C Wess Daniels: Have we become too fixed to allow our prophetic witness to be dynamic with God’s Spirit? http://dlvr.it/1cN1Yt
Craig Barnett: Radical Welcome
I believe that this rich experience of community life, with a deep-rooted but non-dogmatic spiritual basis, is something that many people are looking for, but very few of them would be likely to think of Quakers as somewhere to find it –largely because so few people have any idea of what we are about.
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