August 2009
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Scranton's church-closing Bishop Joseph F Martino... →
“The cloud of speculation over Martino’s future first appeared in June after the 63 year-old prelate was spotted in Rome, where, according to multiple reports, he met with officials at the Congregation for Bishops after the dicastery’s intervention was sought.”
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Scranton's Times-Tribune on on Bishop Martino's... →
“As the song says, you have to know when to hold them and when to fold them,” Bishop Martino said. “And I think it’s time to move on.” Bishop Martino defended his controversial actions to close and consolidate schools and parishes.
Meeting Jesus Bill Clendineng offers another way... →
Faith & Practice for some is a set of options to choose from, depending on one’s theological preferences. The decision during Yearly Meeting sessions was, in many people’s eyes, a de facto…
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Quaking Harlot "Elizabeth" on identifying as... →
But that begs the question of why bother identifying as anything at all. I mean, if it’s just between me and Jesus, what’s the point? The point is evangelism. (Did I just write that?) The point is letting people know that Jesus is the reason that I do my best to live with integrity, obedience and intentionality.
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Peterson T: What should a lapsed evangelical... →
What worship among Quakers has brought to me has been a maturing of my faith. I often say that Quaker meeting for worship is church for adults. We don’t have the programming and the pomp and circumstance, the readings, the sermons, etc provided for us. We have to make our own magic happen.
Hanging with the high schoolers →
Had a good time with Philadelphia Yearly Meeting high school Friends yesterday, two mini-session on the testimonies in the middle of their end-of-summer gathering…
“He was a Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life, instantly recognizable by...”
– NYTimes on Ted Kennedy
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Brooklyn Quaker Rich on not choosing between the... →
It is important to me to know that when I wait on the living Spirit of Christ in our meetings and feel his presence here that I am also touching at least the outer hem of the garment of that man who “dwelt among us” in the flesh, who got his feet dirty walking the dusty roads of Palestine, who touched people and let them touch him, who started out as a baby and had to “grow in...
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Anselm and Self-Thinking Thought →
Nathan Schneider writes in the NYTimes:
Modern arguments and evangelists and New Atheists have duped us into thinking that the interesting question is whether God exists; no, what mattered for Anselm was how we think about God and about one another.
The answer I found in his proof is no answer at all, no truly abstract, autonomous assurance that I can have all to myself. I have to stitch it out...
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Walking Nate on the direction of Quaker renewal →
For me, the heart of the message is found in Matt 5:43 to the end of the chapter, which is essentially about loving our enemies, stating that God loves everyone and we should try to be more like God. To my mind Jesus was just picking the most glaring example of where to expand our consciousness of relationship, and the idea applies equally to anyone who is different from us in any way.
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Johan Maurer isn't looking for Glow in the Dark... →
Please let me know whether you’ve found Quaker books, pamphlets, videos, anything, from recent years, that [shed light on the reader’s situation]. Whether our motive is to make Quakers simply glow in the dark, or to one-up somebody else, internal or external, it’s all about us. If we can simply speak from where we are at this moment… that’s all I really yearn for....
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Quakerthink Kevin on backsliding and the timetable... →
But were the early Friends always “perfect?” It doesn’t seem so. They feuded at times, and were unquestioned backsliders at times. What does this mean?.. For most of us all of the time, and for all of us some of the time, “perfection,” “completeness,” or “maturity” is not a static event, but a benchmark in a process.
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Cleaning Services Guide →
A local client from Tabernacle NJ came to me with an interesting project. He’s owned a commercial cleaning company for a number of years and has heard his share of horror stories about the cleaning services clients hired before finding him! This experience led him to write a PDF book about how to hire the right cleaning service. What a great idea and a what a useful book this is for small...
Pilgrim & Stranger: Unity among Friends →
I find myself still in some sense connected to the Quakers who do not share my Christ-centered faith. I don’t see them as mission fields or me as a missionary. Indeed, I have often felt that the…
New outreach videos on Baltimore Yearly Meetings's... →
On finding Friends, vocal ministry, worship and more!
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WatchThe Snake Brothers singing today at the Feast of the Assumption at St Mary’s Malaga. I’m sorry I missed them, Julie says they put chills down her spine. Luckily they’re playing again on the 29th at Estell Manor as part of the Pinelands Folk Arts Festival (PDF flyer). I won’t miss them this time!
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Valiant Micah on Ohio Yearly Meeting... →
Ohio Yearly Meeting, after more than a century of decline, is growing once again. It is growing numerically, spiritually and in terms of morale. This year, Friends celebrated as they welcomed…
Johan Maurer thinks our publications are too tame →
As we live with the results of the 19th-century divisions among us, the stuff we put out often reflects where we are in the complex geography of today’s Friends. We evangelical Friends write more…
LizOpp on getting off the confortable bench →
If we do open ourselves to the possibility of growth and change, so often it’s got to be on our own terms—during summer vacation, or after the baby comes, or after I get done with painting the…