Evangelical Friends

Can you believe?: Should all evangelical Friends be in one organization?

I've now been in an Evangelical Friends yearly meetin. year longer tha. was head of the FUM staff, and I'm starting to make some comparisons. (Posted by chrismsf on 2008-06-05T19:49:44Z.)

Bill Samuel is an evangelical but not an Evangelical

Evangelicals also proclaim Christ is Lord, but their emphasis on the written word as the sole determiner of Truth tends to contradict that. am not an Evangelical because I'm not sure that Evangelicalism is really centered on Jesus Christ. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-05-17T15:11:19Z.)

Quakers going Pagan? A Firm and Loving "No"

This may b. somewhat new phenomenon to Streib, but it's not to Evangelical Friends. So how d. answer Streib's question? As Evangelical Quakers in Evangelical Friends Church Southwest, the answer i. firm and loving "No". (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-05-07T22:48:17Z.)

Ecstatic Scott on Quaking and Evangelicals

Evangelical Friends hav. heritage particularly rich with the Power and its workings because it wasn't only the early Quakers that quaked. For man the "born again" experience was often accompanied by manifestations of the Power. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-03-14T22:31:38Z.)

Rock & Roll Jr High Quakers

Evangelical Friends at California youth camp worship service rock t. praise song. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-03-14T22:04:42Z.)

Johan M on Quaker scale in a chruch where there are three services each Sunday

I was curious about how it would feel inside to speak three times from essentially the same burst of inspiration. Would it feel artificial the third time--would the inspiration "wear out"?. Woul. get confused? (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-02-16T14:43:12Z.)

A Snapshot of Friends in the Americas from Friends Journal

The general secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultatio. Section of the Americas, Margaret Fraser, looks at the trends of Quaker meeting membership (FUM, FGC, EFI, Conservative, and independent; programmed and unprogrammed) in the Americas over (Posted by friends.journal on 2008-01-31T14:34:27Z.)

Aj Schwanz on communion and rituals whose meanings have been forgotten

I understand how the lack of physical symbols i. symbol in itself. While it was seemingly so meaningful to first gen Qs. wonder if the power dissipates with each generation: as we follow them, we see more of their shoes than where they were headed. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-28T15:46:02Z.)

Gregg K on the non-use of communion among Friends

Onl. few have anything to say in response to [question about use of communiion]. That troubles me; it tells me that we are not articulating well, we are not calling people toward, we are not setting before them the beautiful example of lives lit aflame. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2008-01-25T18:02:30Z.)

Wess D questions relevancy (first of a series)

Relevancy (as understood withi. consumer society) as the primary question for the church and its mission is motivated by an underlying presupposition that the church is old and traditional, and that old and tradition are inherently bad things. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-11-02T20:30:59Z.)

Johan M on reliance on worship style

[W]e don't try to pre-empt the Holy Spirit with our own traditions or cleverness, but do all we can to frame and demonstrate freedom, authenticity, and equality in worship. We depend on the Holy Spirit to guide our worship... (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-10-18T23:02:20Z.)

Bill Samuel on class differences among Friends traditions

The differences between my home yearly meeting and Eastern Region were very evident when they presented it a. way to help people within their churches. In my or other liberal YMs, it would have been presented a. way to help "them" not us. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-10-11T18:50:48Z.)

Qrs Engaging Jon on younger Friends building Community across the divides

"In an increasingly pluralized society such as ours, the use of language can b. roadblock to getting to the heart of the matter and the communication among Friends bears this out. On the other hand, language is all we have..." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-09-27T11:06:15Z.)

Johan Mauer starts a discussion on Baltimore's FUM report

"It may be the most useful document ever produced b. member yearly meeting's representatives in my memory, but only [if it's] not mined for 'bombshell' value [and] the document's users are willing to tease out management issues from theological issues." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-09-22T20:51:17Z.)

Qr Oats Cherice on the relation between service and outreach

"[Early Friends] weren't just serving people in order for people to become Quakers. They were serving people because they genuinely loved them and wanted to show them the same love they'd received from God." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-09-21T23:29:14Z.)

Lovin' Life Liz on Mid America Yearly Meeting

"The youth superintendent spoke something that really reached me. He spoke about loving the church just how it is. To me that really spoke to the issue. had been having with YM...I do think that love breeds gentle change." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-08-01T22:07:22Z.)

Katie Gates on Barclay Pr.: Ten Reasons My Relationship with the Church Depends on the Lighting

"My serious angst comes out o. true love fo. community of humans who seem doomed to being two-faced. Some of the very things that trouble me most about the church are also the things that have the most potential for beauty and inspiration." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-08-01T19:52:10Z.)

Cherice finds yearly meeting similarities across 3000 miles and theologies

"Northwest and New England YMs... seem to be coming t. similar place from opposite sides... Maybe not everyone from each of your YMs would be excited about this description, but many of us are excited to... listen and learn from one another." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-05-29T11:41:57Z.)

Qrs Engaging John on John Wesley and Programmed Friends

But to what extent ha. Wesleyan heritage diminished the vibrancy of our Quaker testimonies?... How can the Wesleyan and Quaker threads within programmed Friends engage in productive dialogue? (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-05-10T00:47:09Z.)

Jeff C on pastors wanting to be offended

"In order to be offended by it one must bu. ticket and go in to the auditorium and sit through it. Now why, instead of putting effort in to getting offended on purpose doesn't he just put the effort in to following (then) President Bingham's advice?" (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-05-03T23:30:48Z.)

Growing Together Will on continuing revelation and sources of spiritual authority

"It appears to me that many liberal Friends think that continuing revelation means that God will provide us wit. whole new revelation... But that is not how God has acted in the past... The original version of Quakerism was radically conservative." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-05-01T18:48:44Z.)

Life Force Laurie on what the literature we distribute tells first-time visitors

"It is too much for me to stand by and see newspapers like this...distributed i. Quaker church... The people we met were wonderful. This paper made me sick. How can such decent, loving folks support this type of thing? " (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-04-12T21:45:59Z.)

Long time since Sunday, Part II " A2Z

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Laurie K goes on a Quaker-sponsored writers retreat

"To connect in the little Barclay Press writing enclave felt more natural tha. expected, and frankly, surprised the wits out of me.... What's with this whole community thing? Seriously. could not resist the light mood...or the fun with Christians on (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-03-23T03:45:52Z.)

Johan M's antidote to recent grumblings about Quaker quarrels and self-absorption

How Friends have been good to him, what drives him crazy, an. look at Friends' vocation among the larger body of Christians? (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-03-16T22:54:18Z.)

Life of the Beloved " A2Z

On Nowuen and bread (Posted by sheadley on 2007-03-07T15:35:59Z.)

Kids in our Community " A2Z

Healthy Kids, transferring values and living modestly. (Posted by sheadley on 2007-03-01T06:56:03Z.)

Johan on the ongoing divisions between Friends

"Somehow, bein. Friend is stil. light and agile thing. joyful and first-generation thing. sprite i. community of sprites among the lumbering elephants of religiosity." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2007-02-23T14:53:47Z.)

Gregg K on churches as products and consumers

"The church has been marketing itself pretty relentlessly over the last few decades... We want people to understand that our product i. relationship with God (done in our style of worship, of course), and that the price is free (but with expectations th (Posted by martin_kelley on 2006-10-23T17:36:27Z.)

Freedom Friends doing it in style with neon and orange velvet

The church with the (unwritten) testimony against stodiness get. new home. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2006-09-12T14:43:49Z.)

Gregg's K imagines the Evangelical Orthodox hotseat!

"I don't understand why so many Evangelicals have felt it necessary or helpful to attempt to win people over to our way of thinking by beginning with stating our beliefs... Most people in America have heard our beliefs, but they don't know why thos. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2006-07-27T18:30:15Z.)

Cherice on the loaded world of "missions"

"And yet, if we truly we believe we have 'good news,' if we truly believe everyone has this Light within them that is yearning for [I'll let you fill in the blank with your favorite word but I'll use God], then why wouldn't we want to share this with peop (Posted by martin_kelley on 2006-04-08T18:18:12Z.)

Cherice on divine revelation

"This could (and does) happen whether someone knows anything about the biblical Jesus or not. So that might worry some Evangelical Friends, so now it's time to worry some liberal Friends... "There is one, even Christ Jesus, who can speak to thy condition. (Posted by martin_kelley on 2006-03-07T19:06:54Z.)

Peggy says Quakers are not just for breakfast anymore

"I always thought Jesus would mak. good biker." (Posted by martin_kelley on 2006-03-02T23:32:53Z.)

Cherice on "releasing" ministers

"It seems like that society [of Woolman's time] was set up more for traveling ministers to be able to survive. Now we need money...we need jobs, and we can't always travel all the time... But we can communicate with each other better now without actually (Posted by martin_kelley on 2006-03-02T17:18:01Z.)