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First thoughts about convergent weekend
Hey all, the Reclaiming Primitive Quakerism workshop at California’s Ben Lomond Center wrapped up a few hours ago (I’m posting from the San Jose airport). I think it went well. There were about thirty...
View ArticleMax Carter talk on introducing the Bible to younger Friends
Max Carter gave the Bible Association of Friends this past weekend at Moorestown (NJ) Friends Meeting. Max is a long-time educator and currently heads the Quaker Leadership Scholars Program at Guilford...
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Do it yourself and don’t get stuck
This weekend was the long-prepared New Monastics and Convergent Friends weekend at Pendle Hill, co-led by myself and Wess Daniels, with very helpful eldership from Ashley W. As I posted afterwards on...
View ArticleA traveling bus museum visits Quakerranter HQ
This weekend we’ve had a museum parked in our driveway. It’s the “BUS-eum” from the Traces Center for History and Culture in St. Paul, hosting a traveling exhibit on German POW’s in the US during...
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My panel discussion on Quaker leadership at @esrquaker
“Minding the Message” was the second speakers panel at the Quaker leadership conference hosted by Earlham School of Religion this weekend. Four of us were asked to talk about our work in marketing our...
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Lighthouse Challenge 2016
This weekend was the annual Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey, a two-day celebration of shoreline sentinels during which every working lighthouse is open and staffed by volunteers. The truly committed...
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First thoughts about convergent weekend
Hey all, the Reclaiming Primitive Quakerism workshop at California’s Ben Lomond Center wrapped up a few hours ago (I’m posting from the San Jose airport). I think it went well. There were about thirty...
View ArticleMore coming in from this weekend’s workshop
Both of my workshop co-leaders Wess and Robin have now checked in with preliminary reports. More material is being collected on the QuakerQuaker event page. Wess and I have both been uploading lots of...
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Developing a healing ministry
I’ve enjoyed John Jeremiah Edminster’s comments over the years, which is one reason I was happen to get the submission that became The Cost of a Healing Gift. It starts with the story of having a gift...
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Of Quakers and deep democracy – is it time to renew the Quaker Book? |...
Of Quakers and deep democracy – is it time to renew the Quaker Book? | openDemocracy Quakers have a saying, that we ‘hold in the light’ those we are acting in solidarity with. This weekend we need...
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Quakers minute on the child camps
San Antonio Quakers’ minute on child separations Friends Meeting of San Antonio finds the policy of the present administration of separating children from their families at the border to be shameful...
View ArticleLetter of condolence from Friends General Conference
FGC’s Central Committee is meeting this weekend and wrote a letter of condolences to Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, site of the recent shooting We are deeply saddened by the brutal slaying and...
View ArticleA small break
My apologies for the radio silence on this so-called daily site. A family vacation took my attention away from most things Quaker and getting caught up on back work is keeping it away a few days. I...
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Lighthouse Challenge 2016
This weekend was the annual Lighthouse Challenge of New Jersey, a two-day celebration of shoreline sentinels during which every working lighthouse is open and staffed by volunteers. The truly committed...
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Truth and integrity online retreat next weekend
What does integrity mean in our family and spiritual lives? I’m leading on online retreat on Feb. 10 and 11th as part of the “Testimonies to Mercy” series. Learn more and sign up at Powell House’s...
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