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Tag Archives | Spirit
Sparking a Quakerish Epidemic
Forrest Curo is a poet and member of San Diego (Calif.) Meeting. He ran the Aardvark Bookstore here from 1985–1998 and founded Street Light (modeled on American Friends Service Committee’s Street Spirit) in 1996. He put in a year at Pendle Hill Conference Center in 2002 in hopes of finding a spiritual handle on the intractable politics of poverty and is now retired.
Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Online Features
Simple, Relevant, Amusing
How do you sum up your experience and share it in 5 words or less?
Kathleen Wooten is a member of Fresh Pond Meeting in Cambridge, Mass. She travels among Friends both digitally and in person, and carries a minute of travel from her meeting. Kathleen also administers social media accounts for New England Yearly Meeting. She shares about her travels at quakerkathleen.org.
Posted in: Going Viral with Quakerism, Online Features
The Ecology of Quaker Meeting
By James W. Hood. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 449), 2018. 32 pages. $7/pamphlet. James Hood, a member of Friendship Meeting […]
Art That Works
Can art really change the world?
Joey Hartmann-Dow is a member of Lehigh Valley Meeting in Bethlehem, Pa., and is currently nomadic. You can keep up with her projects and adventures at usandweart.com.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Features
No Such Thing as Silence?
Silence is not always silent.
Kevin Holm-Hudson is a professor of music theory at the University of Kentucky. He attends Lexington (Ky.) Meeting.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts
News, June/July 2018
Kellum to begin as FUM General Secretary; Marshall retires as Earlham School of Religion Dean 🔒 Friends Journal Member? Sign […]
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Seeds That Change the World: Essays on Quakerism, Spirituality, Faith, and Culture
By Debbie L. Humphries. QuakerPress of FGC, 2017. 143 pages. $14.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. Is it okay to shout out to Friends, […]
Brad Sheeks is a member of Newtown (Pa.) Meeting, and with his wife, Patricia McBee, has moved to Newtown to enjoy retirement and live closer to daughter, Jennie, and her family.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, June/July 2018 Books, Quaker Book Reviews
Spirit?
Spirit seems to have assumed a major office among Friends.
Ann Birch is a member of El Paso (Texas) Meeting; she is an academic reference librarian, grandmother, and actor in local theater.
Posted in: Creativity and the Arts, Viewpoint
The Value of Loss
Is it enough to simply don a cloak of wholesome ideals?
Emily Weyrauch is currently serving as a Quaker Voluntary Service Fellow in Atlanta, Ga., at Georgia WAND, an environmental justice nonprofit. She attends Atlanta (Ga.) Meeting. Emily enjoys cooking with her housemates, making art, telling stories, and spending time outside with birds and plants.
Posted in: Features, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
The Quaker Value of Testing
Losing and then rediscovering Quaker values and community.
Asha Sanaker is a writer and political journalist, regularly featured by the online outlet Countable. She grew up as a member of Adelphi (Md.) Meeting outside of Washington, D.C. and now attends Ithaca (N.Y.) Meeting with her two daughters, Hazel and Ruby.
Posted in: Features, What Are Quaker Values Anyway?
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