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Jim Rose

On Listening

When I ask you to listen to me and you start by giving advice, you have not done what I… Ralph Roughton

Giving Attention to Our Leadings

The most precious gift Friends have to offer is our worship and the leadings that come from it. Yet this… Shirley Dodson

Spiritual Direction as a Resource for Friends

Friends come to their meetings out of some kind of spiritual hunger—a desire for belonging and encouragement in making the… Patty Levering

Conversations from the Heartland

A few years ago, I surprised myself and some friends—I sent out an e-mail to my homeschooling buddies, almost entirely… Kat Griffith

Friends: A Broken, Tender People?

To be led by God is to be free of the hold of fear. Fear may or may not be… Marge Abbott

Deep, Tall, and Wide

I’ve just arrived at the old stone house next to Amish fields where I spend the summers writing. One of… Marcelle Martin

The Three Gems

A famous Buddhist prayer is known as the Three Gems: I take refuge in the Buddha. I take refuge in… Bob Burnett

How Do You Recognize a Divine Revelation?

Two years ago, Baltimore Yearly Meeting published a booklet, A Quaker Response to Christian Fundamentalism, which described beliefs typical of… Bruce Kellogg

Opening to the Spirit in Creation

I see myself within the Quaker Universalist tradition, which affirms that there are many paths to Truth, and that no… Bill Cahalan

An Approach to Religious Education

Members of the Menomonie Ministerial Association (M.A.M.A) stared at me in slack-jawed silence. We had been in the midst of… Mary Snyder

Meeting for Business for Community

In psychotherapy there is a technique we call "paradoxical intervention." It’s what we do when we tell a two-year-old who… Ron McDonald

Clerking: A Semi-Serious Look

From 1975 to 1994 there were only two years when I was not involved in some kind of clerking responsibility… Marjorie M. Anderson
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