Category Archives: Quaker Meetings

Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) Meeting supports the Wet’suwet’en Peoples

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Jeff Kisling

Bear Creek Friends (Quaker) meetinghouse is in the Iowa countryside. Many members have been involved in agriculture and care about protecting Mother Earth. A number of Friends have various relationships with Indigenous peoples. Some Friends have worked to protect water … Continue reading →

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Working for the Iran Deal 2015

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Jeff Kisling

Increasing tensions with Iran now remind me of the work we did in 2015 to help get the Iran Nuclear Deal approved. Tensions today are the direct result of the withdrawal of the United States from that deal. The work … Continue reading →

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Going Beyond Local Boundaries

Posted on December 3, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

My family, and many others in Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) have close ties with Monteverde Friends.  Lucky (Standing) Guindon, my mother’s cousin and constant companion during their childhood, was one of the original group of Quakers who moved to Monteverde, … Continue reading →

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Bear Creek Friends and Monteverde Friends School

Posted on November 26, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

Last year I wrote about this drawing on the envelope of a letter from Monteverde Friends School, which is in Costa Rica. Soon after I received my letter, Bear Creek Friends Meeting’s clerk, Jackie Leckband, brought another envelope to meeting … Continue reading →

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More about stories…

Posted on November 25, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

I’ve been writing about the Thanksgiving/Truthsgiving holiday as an opportunity to talk about the true history of the relationships among White and Native peoples. And I’ve been sharing some of my stories because I think storytelling is a way to … Continue reading →

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Effective Model for Social Change

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

Last night I was honored to be able to share some of my experiences in building relationships with Native peoples with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). You can see my slide presentation here: https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/native-and-non-native-peoples/ In the … Continue reading →

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Healing – Decolonizing Quakers

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

I appreciate this quote from the “Decolonizing Quakers” website: “the decolonizing that needs to take place, both the educating and the healing, are matters of urgency to the survival of the human species and the health of the Earth as … Continue reading →

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Another Mentor, Another Quaker Jailbird

Posted on October 22, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

Because of recent events involving Turkey and the Kurdish people, yesterday I wrote about my mentor, Sherry Hutchison. I was remembering her civil disobedience related to the Iowa National Guard being sent to the Middle East in 2002. I’ve been … Continue reading →

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Diplomacy Could Have Prevented the Bloodshed in Northeastern Syria

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

Diplomacy Could Have Prevented the Bloodshed in Northeastern Syria is the title of a statement by Diane Randall, Executive Secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL). As a Quaker organization committed to ending all wars, the Friends Committee … Continue reading →

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Quaker Queries: Outreach

Posted on October 7, 2019 by Jeff Kisling

I’ve written a number of times about Quaker’s practice of considering answers to a set of queries. https://kislingjeff.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/advices-and-queries/ This month’s advice and queries are about outreach. My response follows the queries. I left out the last names of the people … Continue reading →

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