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Worshiping Online
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.
Posted in: Features, Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Envisioning Broader Quaker Membership
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
It Breaks My Heart
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.
Posted in: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, The FJ Blog
We Need a YAF
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鈥檚 Communications Subcommittee, and is a member of Baltimore Yearly Meeting鈥檚 Advancement and Outreach Committee.
Posted in: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem, The FJ Blog
By Law of Grace: A Journey with the People of the Streets, a Personal Experience
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
I think it says something about our country that even the smallest of voices were recognized
Student Voices: ” I believe that every voice should be heard, but some are silenced by society. As the next president, you should help to give everyone, rich or poor, a chance to voice their opinions.”
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
Every person deserves a chance and the right to have that chance
Student Voices: “The America I envision is an America where all people are treated equally. It is an America where no matter how you look or how you identify, you will be accepted. It is an America that is respected and valued as a country.”
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
Black people just want to be treated equally
Student Voices: “Why does the mistreatment satisfy people? Does it make these people happy to make us feel like we don鈥檛 belong simply because of the color of our skin? Does what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood for mean absolutely nothing to them? We should be judged by who we are as a person, […]
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
You should know that even though you are the president, you aren鈥檛 more important than other people
Student Voices: “Quakers believe that there is good and evil inside all human beings, and each human being can choose between them. Everyone has the power to choose good over evil if they really want to. So, as the president, you should be a good role model and choose good.”
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
As a human race we must understand and accept that we are connected
Student Voices: “My name is Juliet Ramey-Lariviere. I am many things: I am a woman, a friend, an ally, a Chinese immigrant, and a proud member of a multiracial family. I was adopted when I was a baby, and my parents gave me a sense of security and belonging, my white parents.”
Posted in: Quaker Summers, Student Voices Project, Uncategorized
QuakerSpeak DVDs on Sale Now
June/July 2017: Reimagining the Quaker Ecosystem
Consensus Decision Making in Eusocial Organisms by Barbara Dale
What We Cannot Do Alone by Noah Merrill
Worshiping Online by Rachel Guaraldi
Finally Breaking Down the Hedge? by Thomas Hamm
Turning Somersaults in the Quaker Ecosystem by Margaret Fraser
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