Have you seen consensus used for secular organizations? how did it work if so?

How about CLEARNESS? have you seen it used in secular organizations--if so, how did it work or not work?

The Illinois Yearly Meeting High School Friends Cordially Invite all

Quaker High School friends (and their parents) to join us for the…

The Quake That Rocked the Midwest!

January 15-18, 2010

1010 Greanleaf, Evanston Ill, 60202

Folks will be arriving Friday afternoon and evening, and typically fend for themselves for

Friday's dinner. Meals will be provided for Saturday breakfast through Monday lunch.

We will be staying… Continue

When I was young, even when I was older, I yearned to know how God was to use me to help save the world. COuld I work for Amnesty International? COuld I work for Oxfam, or some fair trade organization? What about Greenpeace.



Then I became a foster parent. Not too much different from any other parent except you have to fight for economic justice as hard as any NGO in existence.



You have to consistently convince governments that children's rights include gender equality, a… Continue

Boxes of paper that I haven't looked at in years are designated to be shredded or burned. I need a soap recipe with lye made from ashes...or is that too old.

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Today we received our issue of the Christian Peace Maker Team publication. I realized I had the same reaction that I talked about in the first "thank you for your service," post.

Only when I hear of CPS, or AFSC volunteers or staff members, I take them for granted a bit. I will make sure I thank these peace soldiers for their service as well.

more later...

I did it. Maybe because my father is a vet, maybe because I have seen my uncle in rages over dishes which I now know were PTSD episodes.



I became a Quaker.

and then,



I said "thank you for your service" to the guy in uniform at the airport, and today to the Medical Assistant who served at an prison in Iraq.



I am not torn about it. Only sad they were/are there. And not with their families, not all the time working for peace.



Besides the thank you,… Continue

A few years after attending my first meeting I used to joke (probably itself not a form of simple speech) If you did not like to read it would take you a long while to understand Quakerism--Quakers (the ones I was amongst) did not like to share/evangelize/ offend. Not that the 3 are equal, but I believe some people thought it to be so.



I "rebelled" by telling everyone where I went on Sunday and invited my best friends to meeting. They eventually became attenders, then eventually… Continue

My spouse and I have been fostering 1 child and mentoring another and have been blessed to have a community that has supported us.



But we get these comments like, "you are so great and She is so lucky to have you," which makes me think...we are NOT so great. No greater than anyone in this monthly or yearly meeting. So, I will be asking our Foster Agency and Court Appointed Special Advocates to speak at our second hour one day. I am starting to wish/hope that all our meetings will… Continue

So I found this quote on the michiganquakers.org...We differ from

“liberal” Friends in many ways: many liberal meetings have ceased to

be Christian, and have become at best ecumenical, permitting and

even embracing the beliefs and practices of other, non-Christian and

even pagan faiths... "and "ouch" was my first reaction.



I do agree with most of it, but the first description… Continue