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Spirit Led Peace and Social Concerns
Again this summer Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) met at Scattergood Friends School and Farm for our annual sessions. I am clerk of the Peace and Social Concerns Committee which is a challenge. This summer our meetings went more smoothly, in … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative)
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A Quaker and Native peoples
This morning I have the opportunity to talk about my experiences with Native peoples. As I was preparing for this, I realized my spiritual environmental journey led me to Indigenous peoples. Some recent experiences have helped me move along the … Continue reading
Working for the Iran Deal 2015
Increasing tensions with Iran now remind me of the work we did in 2015 to get the Iran Nuclear Deal approved. Tensions today are the direct result of the withdrawal of the United States from that deal. The work began … Continue reading
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Tagged FCNL, Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative), Iran
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Youth Led Movement
“We have not come here to beg world leaders to care, you have ignored us in the past and you will ignore us again. We have run out of excuses and we are running out of time. We have come … Continue reading
Iowa and Global Climate Strike
Having written a lot recently about choosing between continuing to fight for climate change or, instead, preparing for the climate chaos that we’ll continue to experience, I’m a little ambivalent about things like this climate strike. Global strikes like these … Continue reading
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Iowa Young Friends’ Giving Voice Epistle
As I read with great joy and gratitude the following “giving voice” epistle of the Young Friends of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative) this year, I wanted to share it with those beyond our yearly meeting who would not see it … Continue reading
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Taking the Second Path
I’ve been studying an article that is labeled a Cultural Comment, written by Jonathan Franzen that was just published in The New Yorker. The title and subtext is “What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped? The … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, climate refugees, peace, Quaker, Uncategorized
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Still Shinin: The Documentary
I’ve written a great deal about the Kheprw Institute (KI), who has partnered with North Meadow Circle of Friends on the AFSC program, Quaker Social Change Ministry. In this article that was published in NUVO magazine, Diop Adisa talks about … Continue reading
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Risking arrest for our future
Many states are criminalizing acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, clearly violating First Amendment rights. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; … Continue reading
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Use of Questions as Spiritual Practice
I imagine any number of religious communities use questions to help guide spiritual reflection. Quakers use the term Query to refer to these questions. Different Quaker meetings create their own sets of queries. The following relates to the Advices and … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 