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New Law Would Ban Marriages Between People Who Don’t Love Each Other.

“Marriage has legal implications as well. For instance, if one member of a loveless couple got sick, their spouse could no longer visit them in the hospital to bereate them about how much that medical bill is going to cost.”

From the Onion, via half my Facebook Friends list.

Friendship in an Age of Economics (NYTimes)

I recognize that at some point early Friends established structure and organization. My sense, though, is that their vision was that the structure would serve the vision and mission and not that the…

Mark shares his travels from pentecostalism to Friends, with Belief-o-Matic to a tauferbard. In four parts.

Some know that I am doing research on Quakers and community and reading journals of early Friends and the communities they established as they pushed out into the wilderness that was early America… So, keeping that in mind, please consider responding to a few simple queries: What was the meaning of forming the “Religious Society” of Friends? What is the meaning of belonging to a Religious Society of Friends for us today?

When, at age 19, as an already avowed Quaker, I finally learned that much of that information was outright false I felt deeply betrayed… Despite intensive Quaker experience at the monthly and yearly meeting levels as well as through Friends General Conference, I was failed by the Quaker adults in charge of my religious education.  The word “failed” here seems strong so I want  to qualify it.  I do not believe that these adults even knew that they were letting me down.

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Theo and C examine a toy: At friend C’s fourth birthday party at Estell Manor Park.

Francis gets ready to eat even more: At friend C’s fourth birthday party at Estell Manor Park.

The seeds that were planted this weekend must be tended and nurtured, or they will not grow. We look forward to the joy of continued labor, and to the fruit that our branches will bear. Before these…

If there is hope for a future for Friends marked by anything other than the same divisions and resentments we have nurtured in the past, we have to find a non-confrontational way of being with one…

Riding with his friend:

Francis and a classmate ride the big trucks

Also present among all in attendance was a strong sense of vulnerability and a willingness to be unguarded and honest. Friends believed this was one of the major strengths of the gathering and all in…

For Friends like me who fall, more or less, into the Isolated Friend category, where one must lean more on the faith and less the practice of Friends, books like this are manna from Heaven….

The Lord made it clear to me that what I needed to do was to simply start living the transformed life… The New City Friends worship group was born out of this. Our Christian foundation,…

As a young person who travels in the ministry, I found it was easy for me to get traveling minutes, and not very difficult to get money, but it was harder to find spiritual nurture. So I decided to…