March 2012
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February 2012
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Cherice Bock: Testimonies vs Distinctives
Here in Northwest Yearly Meeting you’ll sometimes hear people describe the Friends’ peculiar stances on things as “distinctives.” I thought this was normal until I was speaking to Friends in Boston and someone told me they knew to which branch of Friends I belonged because I referred to the Friends testimonies as “distinctives.”
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Eileen Flanagan: Earth-Conscious Quakers Against...
At their Feb. 29 kick-off event at Friends Center in Philadelphia, EQAT will announce that Quakers have already pledged to remove at least $1.9 million from PNC Bank, one of the biggest financers of mountaintop removal. PNC claims to be a “green” bank with Quaker roots, part of the reason the group believes the bank is susceptible to consumer pressure. Tags: quaker green business...
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So far I don’t think I’d notice it wasn’t March 1. #leapday #fail
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Mark Wutka: Quit pushing your belief system on me!
You keep telling me that this is an experiential religion, and then every time I turn around you are telling me that I need to believe in things like simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, etc. You proudly tell me that Quakers don’t proselytize but then preach to me about opposing war and how bad Republicans are. What is experiential about that? If it is truly experiential, I...
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Ashley Wilcox: A Fresh Word
Recently, I have been feeling a heaviness around the Religious Society of Friends, mostly having to do with money and maintaining institutions. I feel like we need a fresh word. So that is my prayer for myself and for Friends.
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Monday morning, made it in to work. It feels so good to be able to kick my shoes off, relax, and unwind.
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Nat Case: Nakedness
Can real nakedness be the basis of identity? Could it be that all the stuff we use to bind ourselves together is getting in the way? If we wish to utterly open ourselves to truth, to go out naked into February, do we need to shed the very name itself? Is the truest Quaker the one who accepts no common identity—no meetinghouse, no clerk, nothing? How could such a Quakerism survive? How would it...
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Experiment in sleep deprivation continuing.
Fasnacht Day!
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Theo just told me I was correct in my guess that our house doesn’t have its own Wikipedia page. The outrage!
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Simon St. Laurent: Aspiring to be Quaker
Reading early Quaker history, it is hard not to be struck not only by the commitment of the Valiant Sixty but by the number of people who were interested in the message but didn’t stay around. Reading Pennsylvania history, it’s hard not to notice Quakerism falling off over the generations because the appeal of worldly things - fashion, slaves, and many kinds of business - had a greater...
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Robin M: Vision and Leadership
I would love to hear a) any stories of Quaker leaders & committees/organizations that have functioned well together past or present or b) advice on how you or someone you know have successfully navigated this pathway and what tools (spiritual or practical) you think are useful.
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Jim Wilson: Quaker Communion
I would like to close by pointing out that Quakers thought of themselves as ‘primitive Christianity revived.’ And there is a lot of truth to that view. But in some ways I think Quakers may have, at times, thrown the baby out with the bathwater. There is a lot of evidence for communion going all the way back to the very earliest Christian communities.
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I’m so totally loving how as the train pulls out of the tunnels it’s bathed in glorious sunlight. Quite a change from last time a month ago.
Changes and choices for The Australian Friend |...
The Australian Friend is now online at AustralianFriend.org, as AYM agreed during Yearly Meeting in January 2012 in Perth.
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Sapping Attention: Making Downton more traditional
Data mining language to spot Downton’s anachronisms. http://dlvr.it/1C5w5k
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Patricia Barber: Will the Real Quakers Stand Up?...
For almost 200 years, we’ve been squabbling about who the real Quakers are. We’ve all headed off in high dudgeon to our various fortresses, currently named FGC, FUM, EFI and (Conservative), from which we occasionally sally forth to mingle with Them.
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Since we unplugged coaxial cable there’s no way to watch Grammies. But then I’ve never watched more than 10 mins. I’ll rely on tweets.
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Mark Wukta; Let All Things Be Done Unto Edifying
When I hear Friends talk about Quakerism, I often find that our supposedly creedless faith is described in terms of what we believe (“we believe there is that of God..”, “we believe in equality, simplicity, etc.”). It seems like many Quaker Quest sessions also present our faith tradition in terms of its beliefs or ideas. Why does it seem rare to hear people speak about...
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Quaker Bloggers Respond to Maggie’s Post “YOU ARE...
In the first few days after Maggie’s recent blog post, we realized that she had hit a nerve as the comments just kept coming in. That realization deepened over the following days, as we started to see blog entries popping up in response
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Cathy Barney: The purity of clearness in community
It is a beautiful process and one in which I was the recipient. Too often, in my experience, we want to do what we do in the secular world: listen briefly, then try to fix it for the person in question. Either that or leave it merely at listening.
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Johan Maurer: Diffident no more
Not that I’m signing any manifestos. I’ve already explicitly refused to lay any claim on being able to define “real” Friends. But I still want to know, does anyone care if you or I are Friends? Do you? Does God? Is any person’s life made more whole by the fact that you or I identify with Quakers?
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Ashley Wilcox and Clothing | Clothe Yourself in...
A few years ago, my sister gave me a bright red coat for Christmas. I love it and I frequently get compliments when I wear it. At the time, I was feeling led to stop trying to be invisible and to let my light shine. Wearing my red coat is one of the ways I remind myself to do that.
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Victoria Pearson: Called Out, Called In: Maggie...
And how do I handle being called out? Not too well, it seems, given the number of days I dismissed this challenge, this clear call to be more than what my un-committed commitment to seeking has led me to be. But I’m writing this, after all, so maybe there’s some hope yet.
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