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Category Archives: Quaker Meetings
Reflections on a Quaker Annual Meeting
I just returned home from a week spent at Scattergood Friends School, where the annual meeting of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) was held. My blog posts are definitely not official or approved by the yearly meeting. This post is a … Continue reading
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Tagged asylum, Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Peace and Social Concerns
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Visual Leadings
Yesterday I tried to explain how I see photography as a spiritual practice. As often happens, I realized there was more I wanted to say. I tried to explain how my awareness of the beauty of the natural world being … Continue reading
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Living the Change
As I wrote yesterday, I heard from Susanna Mattingly, the Sustainability Communication Officer for the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC). FWCC is joining a multi-faith campaign to work for sustainable living, called Living the Change. This encourages us to … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, Ethical Transportation
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Truth, Beauty and Bicycles
This morning I received this message from Susanna Mattingly, the Sustainability Communication Officer for the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC): I’m trying to select a few images that will represent Quakerism to faith groups all around the world. FWCC … Continue reading
Who am I?
My Quaker meeting, Bear Creek, is part of Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends (Conservative). As the name implies, people who belong to this group of Quaker meetings come together annually for business, worship, learning and spending time with each other. … Continue reading
Quakers and the Poor People’s Campaign
Last night Rev. William Barber spoke to Quakers gathered for this year’s meetings of the Friends General Conference at the University of Toledo. He mentioned attending Quaker meetings as a child. He spoke about two Quaker abolitionists who are heroes/sheroes … Continue reading
Quakers and Peace Today
Much has been written about the role of some Quakers in the Underground Railroad, that network of safe places where those escaping enslavement found help on their journey northward. It seems not as many Friends were involved as we might … Continue reading
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Race, Culture and Ideology
In a review of the book The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump,” Paul Rosen writes: Emory University political scientist Alan Abramowitz argues that Trump is the product of an ongoing multigenerational process that has reshaped … Continue reading
National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
According to Quaker House of Fayetteville, North Carolina, one of the few listening sessions of the new congressional National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service will be held: Vinton, Iowa at Wesley Methodist Church 516 2nd Avenue June 26, … Continue reading
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Tagged conscientious objection, conscription, draft, draft resistance, war
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Fear Not
My niece Alice graduated from the University of Wisconsin this year, so I got to hear the wonderful commencement address by ABC News anchor, David Muir. His message was that the graduates were about to face a number of new … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 