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Quakers and the Future of Racial Healing
I often write about trying to listen for and be guided by the Spirit. Quaker Sterling Duns puts it this way below. “Things just started to open up because I really started listening and being guided by this inner truth.” … Continue reading
Posted in Black Lives, Quaker Meetings, race, Uncategorized
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Unlearning Capitalism
The more I learn about Mutual Aid and capitalism, the clearer it is that we must build alternatives to replace the capitalist system. Mutual Aid is emerging as that alternative . “Unlearning racism” refers to teaching people who believe they … Continue reading
Posted in capitalism, climate change, Des Moines Mutual Aid, Quaker, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged capitalism, Capitalocene, extractive, racism
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Prophetic Vision
Friends in my Quaker meeting in rural Iowa have been praying and discussing what we are being led to do at this time, when there is so much suffering in the world. “Being led” means discerning what the inner light, … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, Ethical Transportation, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
Tagged prophetic, Quakerism
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What does it mean to be a truth teller?
I’ve recently heard about additional experiences of a friend of mine, a Quaker friend. A friend who is a person of color. She has had many experiences related to racism and White supremacy, in more than one Quaker meeting she … Continue reading
My tree friend
I subscribe to poem-a-day (https://poets.org/). Today’s poem is “To the Pine Tree” (which can be found at the end of this). That reminded me of the blog post I had written in 2019 about my tree friend. August 26, 2019: … Continue reading
Election
Today, November 3, 2020, is election day in what is called the United States. First, everyone should vote. “I have said this before, and I will say it again, the vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the … Continue reading
Young Quaker Men Facing War and Conscription
Don Laughlin was a mentor to me. He and his wife Lois lived just a few miles from Scattergood Friends School and Farm, a Quaker co-ed, boarding High School just East of West Branch, Iowa. Following is part of his … Continue reading
Posted in civil disobedience, Kheprw Institute, peace, Quaker, Quaker Meetings, Uncategorized
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Out of the Meetinghouse
Yesterday I wrote about Peace in a Culture of Violence, which began ‘this country’s culture of violence has taken dramatically new forms that we haven’t adapted our work to address. ‘ And ended with ‘in light of all this, what … Continue reading
Posted in #NDAPL, American Friends Service Committee, civil disobedience, Des Moines Mutual Aid, First Nation-Farmer Climate Unity March, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Great Plains Action Society, Indigenous, Keystone Pledge of Resistance, Mutual Aid, Quaker, Quaker Meetings, Quaker Social Change Ministry, Uncategorized
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Quakers and Mutual Aid
I’ve been studying mutual aid extensively lately because the concept encapsulates the answer to what I have been praying and thinking about for many years. About the immorality and dangers of the capitalist system. As stated below, “we must mobilize … Continue reading
Prairie Awakening / Prairie Awoke 2020
Yesterday my Quaker Meeting, Bear Creek Friends of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), discussed the meeting’s long history of connection with Prairie Awakening/Prairie Awoke. This ceremony is held annually at the Kuehn Conservation Area, just a few miles from the meetinghouse … Continue reading
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Tagged Bear Creek, Prairie Awakening
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Quakers, social justice and revolution 