Martin Kelley

links for 2007-09-26

• Blog: Quaker school changed my life (via QuakerQuaker.org) For the brilliant training that I recieved, I will always be grateful to the Quakers. They rescued me from a dim and drearly life, from isolation and affluence, into the powerful world of service and spirit. (tags: quaker.youth quaker)
• Sheffielder Craig B on Quaker save spaces vs a Quaker way “For many people the Quaker Meeting is primarily a ‘safe space’ - a place to be themselves, where they will be accepted … without expectations or demands…. But for me there is something missing from this image. (tags: quaker quaker.liberal)
• Jez gathering in outside public worship in Hyde Park “It might not seem like much, especially if you’ve attended silent peace vigils, but taking your faith and way of meeting into the open, offering it up for view and possibly ridicule is a big step.” (tags: quaker quaker.outreach)
• Qr Oats Cherice wonders about a Quaker response to immigration issues “What do you all think about this situation? Should we as Friends do something about the immigration issue? If so, what? If someone is an illegal immigrant, how should we help them? Should we break the law?” (tags: quaker quaker.witness)
• Brent Bill’s worship sharing group looks at spiritual community “Does a spiritual community differ from a social community because instead of human-to-human relationships it is based on human-to-God-to-human relationships? Is it based on “a call” to join the group? Is it covenantal in nature?..” (tags: quaker quaker.community)