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Membership as Commitment and Belonging

By Marisa Johnson on June 1, 2017

Is membership a pragmatic arrangement or a spiritual experience?

Marisa Johnson has been serving as secretary to Friends World Committee for Consultation Europe and Middle East Section since 2008, and this has given her the opportunity of seeing many forms of Quaker worship and community building. Membership is often a central theme in becoming and maintaining community.

The article is taken from thoughts from an address that Johnson gave to Britain Yearly Meeting Gathering in 2014.

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

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A Place of Stillness in Iran

By Karie Firoozmand on October 1, 2016

A Friend finds that inward place of quiet communion while traveling through Iran.

Karie Firoozmand is a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md.

Posted in: Crossing Cultures, Features

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A Quietness Within: The Quiet Way as Faith and Spirituality

By Reviewed by Judith Favor on April 1, 2016

By Elaine Pryce. Pendle Hill Pamphlets #434, 2015. 33 pages. $7/pamphlet. For Friends who have spent decades practicing quietude, or […]

Judith Favor is a contemplative abiding at Claremont (Calif.) Meeting. Like Elaine Pryce, she knows “the quiet way has always been, at some instinctive level, indivisible from the topography of my own inner landscape.”

Posted in: April 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews, Spiritual Nurture / Quaker Training

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A Little Book of Unknowing

By Compiled by Karie Firoozmand on March 1, 2016

By Jennifer Kavanagh. Christian Alternative Books, 2015. 57 pages. $9.95/paperback; $3.99/eBook. This very slim book’s title is about mysticism, as […]

Posted in: Disability and Inclusion, March 2016 Books, Quaker Book Reviews

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