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Added by Peter Lawless on 10th mo. 21, 2009 at 2:49pm — No Comments

International Talk like a Quaker Day

Friends, I am pleased to announce that Tenth Month 24 (10/24/09) will be the third annual International Talk Like a Quaker Day.



Basically, this is a day to use Plain Speech (thee/thy instead of you/your) and/or talk about Quaker principles, such as peace and equality.



Here are some examples:



ITLAQ Day is the 24th day of Tenth Month and it is Seventh Day (of the week). This day is also William Penn's birthday and United Nations Day.



Mind the… Continue

Added by Jen Chapin-Smith on 10th mo. 20, 2009 at 1:55pm — No Comments

I Lovingly, Respectfully Decline the Invitation

Galatians Chapter 5 (The Message)



16-18My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be… Continue

Added by Raye on 10th mo. 20, 2009 at 9:58am — 5 Comments

WBFF - The Bridge Film Festival You Tube Channel

WBFF is link to the You Tube channel for the Bridge Film Festival. This is where you may view all the student film submissions and other films related to the experience.

Added by Andrew Swartley Cohen on 10th mo. 18, 2009 at 12:28pm — No Comments

A loving sensibility?

I came across the following e e cummings' poem today



i carry your heart with me(i carry it in

my heart)i am never without it(anywhere

i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done

by only me is your doing,my darling)

i fear

no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want

no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)

and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody… Continue

Added by Peter Lawless on 10th mo. 16, 2009 at 1:30pm — No Comments

Podcast for Quaker Jewish Dialogue about Jesus

First evening of the Fall Tuesday night lecture was fascinating.
A Quaker Jewish Dialogue about Jesus. You might be surprised by what you hear.
Listen to the blog post:
http://www.pendlehill.org/

Join us next Tuesday for a Buddhist Quaker perspective:
http://www.pendlehill.org/lectures/fall2009/246-knock-and-it-shall-be-opened

Added by Walter Hjelt Sullivan on 10th mo. 15, 2009 at 11:50am — No Comments

Fall Lectures start at Pendle Hill this Tuesday

Free and open to the public.
At Pendle Hill.
7:30 pm til 9pm
We are talking about Jesus. You may be surprised. Give us a try. Bring a Friend or just a friend. It is a great group of speakers

http://pendlehill.org/lectures/fall2009/245-a-jewish-quaker-dialogue-about-jesus

Added by Walter Hjelt Sullivan on 10th mo. 11, 2009 at 6:13pm — 1 Comment

Quandary Queries for Quakers ;-D

I try to follow the Quaker testimony on ordinances and being educated in Catholic schools, I bear witness that the Catholics, Roman and Orthodox, have a lot of pageantry. I think the only health plan they had was the mandatory eating of fish on Friday. I still wonder what the fast was supposed to be in parts of the world where the only animal food is fish. Those days are long over.



I have looked over Kosher rules in the Torah and Talmud and Kosher products at the store, there is… Continue

Added by C. Morningbear Cullimore Mercer on 10th mo. 7, 2009 at 2:43pm — No Comments

art as protest

I went along to the Labour party conference in Brighton, wearing a tee-shirt which said, 'too disabled to be...a social worker?' and handed out the plinth poem, 'For those left standing' to a number of startled politicians to remind them that one in five of the UK population is 'disabled'...by society's low expectations of us. Various journalists also got the poem. Health should not be a determining factor in retention in any of the professions in England, as is currently the case.

The… Continue

Added by Rosemary Rimmer-Clay on 10th mo. 4, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

QuakerQuaker This Week, 10/4/09

Nine Editor Picks including: "Friends as a Corrective for Culture," "Pain and the (Quaker?) world" and "Navigating the boundaries of sexuality," plus member posts and new events.



EDITORS PICKS:



Obedient Linda: Friends as a Corrective for Culture

Everything that being a Friend has led me to has been counter-intuitive to the prevailing culture of individualism. Where my society would call me to be a… Continue

Added by QuakerQuaker on 10th mo. 4, 2009 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Quarterly meeting musings

Just returned from the quarterly meeting for the Pacific NW quarter of North Pacific yearly meeting (there's a mouthful!) At home we just call it Lazy F, because that is the retreat center where it's held.



I felt my daughter's absence quite intensely but I did find spiritual recharge as well. God bless my fellow worshippers. One of them shared a jewel that still glistens (reflecting Light)-- His Four Powers 1) the great mystery 2) the incredible power of connectedness 3) the power of… Continue

Added by Madeleine Cadbury Brown on 9th mo. 28, 2009 at 4:56pm — No Comments

QuakerQuaker This Week, 9/27/09

It's been a busy week: eighteen featured articles from across the web! Where else can you get this quality and diversity of fresh Quaker writing?



Join the "Quaker10 Club": The most helpful donation for QQ's future would be regular (us)$10/month donations from a core group of readers. A predictable income would give us the ability to add new exciting new features that have monthly bills attached to them. As an added… Continue

Added by QuakerQuaker on 9th mo. 27, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Quaker "Fasting": Simplicity in Food

Hello Friends,



I have searched for answers to this question, but have found yet no one really discussing this very much. The topic: Simplicity in Food. I suppose this could be a discussion topic in the Plainness and Simplicity group, but I don't know if it would be welcome there, and so, I hesitate to clutter that page unnecessarily. I will say that I feel a commonality between what seems to be a call to me to eat simply and Quaker Jane's description of why she went… Continue

Added by Michael on 9th mo. 25, 2009 at 7:16pm — 12 Comments

Dipping my toes in the pools of spirituality

I have been looking forward to quarterly meeting with spiritual hunger. Without a meeting community or the gift of regular monthly meetings, the gatherings I attend have great importance to me.



This will be my first quarterly meeting without my daughter. As she has matured she has needed less and less of me. In the last few meetings I had but a few glimpses of her, as we had parallel experiences at the quarterly meeting. This time I won't even have the glimpses. But I will probably… Continue

Added by Madeleine Cadbury Brown on 9th mo. 25, 2009 at 5:34pm — 2 Comments

What Kind of Revolution?

(Note: I know this is somewhat tangential to Quakerism, but I haven't posted a thing here for several days.)



A local Marxist organization hosted a panel discussion on Marxism vs. Anarchism. As someone with sympathies with both philosophies, I wanted to see if I would learn anything new by listening to what each side had to say. The panelists were all younger folks than myself, so I thought… Continue

Added by Charley Earp on 9th mo. 20, 2009 at 6:35am — No Comments

QuakerQuaker This Week, 9/19/09

EDITOR PICKS



Eileen Flanagan: Leadings and confronting our own failings

Recently, however, there has been an uncomfortable sense that God is calling us to make and advocate for changes more difficult and radical than adding solar panels or a green roof.... The willingness to confront both our own failings and the ways of the prevailing culture are among the qualities that have enabled Quakers to influence history… Continue

Added by QuakerQuaker on 9th mo. 19, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Online learning - two courses in October

What is a nice little Quaker organization like us doing with online learning? Well, someone asked us to start it up. And someone came to us with an idea for a course. And we tried it. And we liked it!



Quaker Studies is a small adult religious education program in the area around Boston Massachusetts. It's a joint effort of Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston and the local quarterly meeting, Salem Quarter. We've been doing local courses and workshops since 1993. Now we're… Continue

Added by Sarah Spencer on 9th mo. 18, 2009 at 12:48pm — No Comments

Holiness

I want to share my reflections on the comments to my original post on Unity. I think Friend Raye nailed it. The key to Unity with God is Holiness. If we all concentrate on becoming Holy as our Father in Heaven is Holy we will draw closer to Him and each other. We have to resist the strong temptation to get sidetracked by religious beliefs, dogma, theology or whatever you want to call our convictions about God. Our job is to love our neighbor and our God. If I do that and you do that, we will… Continue

Added by James C Schultz on 9th mo. 16, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

The Enormity of Human Suffering, part 1: Starvation

(My intent here is to do a series of blogs on human suffering, each highlighting a specific sort of suffering. This may sound morbid and dreary, but I find that recognizing human suffering forms a core part of my sense of calling in the world.)



Starvation is a terrible way to die. I have been terribly ill, with my stomach in knots, feverish and sweating, dry mouth, and throbbing headache. Starvation is much, much… Continue

Added by Charley Earp on 9th mo. 12, 2009 at 2:36am — No Comments

Transgender on the Radio

About an hour ago I stepped out of the studios of WNPR, the Hartford local public radio stations, where I appeared on the Where We Live program to talk about transgender Bible characters as they appear in my play Transfigurations--Transgressing Gender in the Bible. Also on the show performance artist Scott Turner… Continue

Added by Peterson Toscano on 9th mo. 11, 2009 at 11:26am — No Comments

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