Category Archives: Quaker Meetings

Requesting your queries

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

As I’ve been writing lately, some Friends of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) feel this is a time we could revise our advices and queries, and the Ministry and Counsel Committee has encouraged us to do so. I’ve made a number … Continue reading →

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Scattergood Journal — February 1970

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

February 1, 1970 I finished reading Dag Hammarskjold, a Spiritual Portrait by Sven Stolpe. The book increased my interest in and admiration of the man who I can identify with in part. Not in his apparently vast intellectual capacities and … Continue reading →

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Revising Queries 2

Posted on November 25, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

The Ministry and Counsel Committee of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) is asking our monthly meetings to consider possible revisions to our advices and queries. During the online Facebook discussion about this, Marshall Massey wrote: Just speaking for myself, I do not think … Continue reading →

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Keystone Pipeline Spill

Posted on November 18, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

I am in deep mourning today at the news of yet another oil spill.  This one from the Keystone pipeline network that I’ve invested so much time and energy and prayer resisting. I am at a loss. I have faith, … Continue reading →

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Scattergood Journal – Senior Trip -Washington, DC

Posted on November 16, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

(note:  photos were taken in later years during trips to FCNL Annual Meetings and meetings of the American Thoracic Society) Journal, January 25, 1970 Saturday, January 24, we left Scattergood, about 3:30 pm.  We arrived in Washington, DC, at about … Continue reading →

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Journal–Conclusion of Draft Resistance Story

Posted on November 15, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Yesterday I described what happened the first time I turned in my draft card.  At my parents request, I asked the draft board to return the draft card, to give my family more time to accept my decision.  The draft … Continue reading →

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All That We Are Is Story

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

ALL THAT WE ARE IS STORY. From the moment we are born to the time we continue on our spirit journey, we are involved in the creation of the story of our time here. It is what we arrive with. … Continue reading →

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Scattergood Journal — Conscientious Objector Letters

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

First I’d like to share what my Friend Evalyn Kellum, of North Meadow Circle of Friends, where I attended when I was living in Indianapolis, wrote about An Epistle to Friends Concerning Military Conscription: Thank you for sending your struggle with conscription. … Continue reading →

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Queries and Action 2

Posted on November 9, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

There has been some very interesting and helpful discussion about queries on the unofficial Facebook page related to Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative).  It has been especially helpful for me to hear about pushing versus pulling, with pushing being the idea … Continue reading →

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Connections

Posted on November 8, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Reading over the recent Scattergood Journal posts, I realized they are a bit disjointed.  There were a number of references in them that could have been more fully explained. If you didn’t see the video that was in yesterday’s post, … Continue reading →

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