Tag Archives | God

Life, Death, and Resilience

By Gabriel Ehri on June 1, 2017

Among Friends: Our introduction to the June/July issue.

Gabriel Ehri is executive director of Friends Journal.

Posted in: Among Friends, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

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Michael Lane lives in Burlington, N.J.

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What We Cannot Do Alone

By Noah Merrill on June 1, 2017

A new way of relating is breaking through our institutional numbness.

Noah Merrill is a member of Putney (Vt.) Meeting, which has care and oversight of his service in ministry. He serves as secretary of New England Yearly Meeting.

Posted in: Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

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Worshiping Online

By Rachel Guaraldi on June 1, 2017

An experiment with online programmed meeting for worship.

Rachel Guaraldi is an interfaith hospital chaplain, Quaker minister, and spiritual director. As a lifelong Quaker and member of Beacon Hill Meeting in Boston, Mass., Rachel has facilitated dialogue among Quaker, ecumenical, and interfaith communities for over a decade. To join and participate in the online programmed meeting for worship, please visit rachelguaraldi.com/pmfw.

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Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership

By Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance on June 1, 2017

Two Friends share their stories and discuss the need for alternative models of membership.

Jennifer Swann and Emily Provance are members of the Alternate Pathways to Membership Working Group in New York Yearly Meeting under the care of the Ministry Coordinating Committee. Emily is a member of 15th Street Meeting in Manhattan. Jennifer is in the process of moving her membership from South Berkshire Meeting in Great Barrington, Mass., to Fifteenth Street Meeting.

Posted in: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, The FJ Blog

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It Breaks My Heart

By Kate Pruitt on June 1, 2017

The fractured nature of the Quaker community breaks a Friend’s heart

Kate Pruitt is lab director at a small hospital in North Carolina. After farming organically for 18 years, she returned to her home state to escape the weather and find community. Connecting and exploring the Quaker way beginning in 2005 has opened up her spiritual path.

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We Need a YAF

By Mackenzie Morgan on June 1, 2017

We have a disconnect between faith and practice.

Mackenzie Morgan is a software engineer and a member of Adelphi (Md.) Meeting. She is currently serving as clerk of the meeting’s Communications Subcommittee, and is a member of Baltimore Yearly Meeting’s Advancement and Outreach Committee.

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By Law of Grace: A Journey with the People of the Streets, a Personal Experience

By Reviewed by Brian Drayton on June 1, 2017

By Heidi Blocher. Apprenticeship to Jesus, 2016. 120 pages. $7 suggested donation/paperback. Heidi Blocher, a New England Friend who has traveled widely in America and Europe (and the 2010 Richard Cary lecturer at German Yearly Meeting), takes us on a journey few of us would undertake on our own. As I read this book, I […]

Brian Drayton worships with the new Souhegan Meeting in Wilton, N.H., allowed by Weare (N.H.) Meeting.

Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

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Gospel—The Book of Matthew: A New Translation with Commentary—Jesus Spirituality for Everyone

By Reviewed by Rob Pierson on June 1, 2017

Translated by Thomas Moore. Skylight Paths Publishing, 2016. 224 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $19.99/paperback; $19.95/eBook. The other day over lunch, I told a friend that I had been asked to review the Gospel of Matthew. He promptly snorted his soup and started laughing. “What? Are you going to say ‘It’ll never sell’?” He has a point. Even […]

Rob Pierson is a member of Albuquerque (N.M.) Meeting, where he currently clerks Adult Education and leads occasional Bible studies. He is a graduate of the Master of Ministry program at Earlham School of Religion and secretly enjoyed his required advanced exegesis work on the Gospel According to Matthew.

Posted in: June/July 2017 Books, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem

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