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New England Yearly Meeting Friends Explore Their Relationship with Friends United Meeting
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Meeting at the Center
We are all part of the same Quaker family. We are called to love one another, and to be reconciled [ā¦]
Bruce Birchard is a member of Central Philadelphia (Pa.) Meeting. He recently retired after 19 years of service as General Secretary of Friends General Conference. He has been encouraged to develop the entirety of "Meeting at the Center" into a Pendle Hill pamphlet.Ā This is an excerpt from "Meeting at the Center: Living Love and Reconciling One to Another," Bruce Birchard's plenary address at the 2011 Friends General Conference Gathering of Friends held in Iowa.
Posted in: FeaturesRestoring the Golden Rule
Remember the Golden Rule? In 1958 when retired U.S. Navy Captain Albert Bigelow tried to sail this 30āfoot boat to [ā¦]
Jane Braxton Little, a member of Gwynedd (Pa.) Meeting, writes about people, politics, and natural resource issues.
Posted in: FeaturesRitual, Symbol, and Ceremony
The attraction and staying power of religious tradition rests largely in the appeal of ritual, symbol, and ceremony. Quakerismāand other [ā¦]
Keith Helmuth, a member of New Brunswick Monthly Meeting in Canada, is one of the founders of Quaker Institute for the Future.
Posted in: FeaturesLetters to Dear John
Reading John Woolmanās autobiography made me curious about how I would respond to his gentle but challenging ministry for fellow [ā¦]
Marsha Green is a member of Chapel Hill (N.C.) Meeting and serves on the Board of Trustees for Carolina Friends School. She and her husband, Michael, serve as Couple Enrichment Leaders for Friends General Conference.
Posted in: FeaturesReflections on Clerking a Quaker Committee
Soon after I became involved in the Quaker faith, I was told that anytime Quakers meet, it is a meeting [ā¦]
Storm Evans is a member of Chestnut Hill Meeting in Philadelphia. She became a convinced Quaker six years ago, and has clerked or co-clerked three different committees at her meeting. She is a computer consultant to lawyers in the work-a-day world and an avid quilter.
Posted in: FeaturesThoughts about food at Gatherings
I have a concern that has been growing for several years about one element of our time together at FGC [ā¦]
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June/July 2020: Membership and Friends
Features
An Awkward Pause by Debbie B. Ramsey
Transcending Geography by An interview with Francisco Burgos and Traci Hjelt Sullivan
Spiritual Practices for the Pandemic by Mathilda Navias
Membership and Friends
Growing Roots from a Distance by Nikki Holland
Drawing Circles, Not Lines by Sarah Katreen Hoggatt
Lapsed, Released, Let Go, Discontinued by Carolyn HillesāPilant
With Just the Door Ajar by Caroline Morris
Are You Playing Your Religionāgames by Quaker Rules? by Rhiannon Grant
Poetry
Mixed Flock by Ann McNeal
How to Attend a Quaker Meeting for the First Time by Inez Schaechterle
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In an online sermon Honoring our Theological Diversity, Unitarian Universalist minister Susan MankerāSeale says, āLong, long ago, high on a [ā¦]
Paul Ricketts attends Fort Wayne (Ind.) Meeting. He serves on the Religious Education Committee of Friends General Conference and on the Program Committee of the Third World Coalition of American Friends Service Committee.
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