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Category Archives: spiritual seekers
Martin Luther King Jr was a Radical
Martin Luther King Jr was a radical is the title of Cornel West’s article in the Guardian on the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination: The major threat of Martin Luther King Jr to us is a spiritual and moral one. … Continue reading
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Dallas Chief Eagle–spirit led life
As I mentioned yesterday, there is a meeting tomorrow, 2/18/2018, 3:00 PM, at the Kuehn Conservation Area, to organize a Friends of Prairie Awakening-Prairie Awoke group. If you have an interest in native matters, I hope you will attend. Stand … Continue reading
Public Stories
Yesterday’s post about speaking out against injustice generated some interesting discussion on the unofficial Facebook page of my yearly meeting. As I said, I tend to agree that protests that just involve carrying signs aren’t useful for a number of reasons. … Continue reading
The most shameful and tragic problem is silence
Since our trip to Minneapolis last Saturday as water protectors, I’ve been thinking about activism, yet again. Wondering, again, why so few people come out to the streets with us, though it was heartening to find that around 500 or … Continue reading
Spiritual Fire
Lately I’ve been thinking and writing about light and Inner Light. Many years ago, around the year 2000, Dan Treadway and I were the reporters for the annual sessions of Iowa Yearly Meeting (Conservative). The reporters write articles about the … Continue reading
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Simple Life?
I’ve mentioned that some time ago I created a Facebook group called Quakers Welcome Spiritual Seekers, hoping to have a Quaker presence on social media. My thought was that people looking for something to address their interest in spiritual matters, … Continue reading
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Our Lives as Example
As I continue to mourn the recent death of my mentor, Sherry Hutchison, and hear stories of how her life influenced, and continues to influence others, I think about how we can better live our own lives. Teaching is not … Continue reading
Scattergood Journal–May/June, 1970
Journal, May 26, 1970 I have been reading about civil disobedience lately. Many people set up all sorts of criteria to judge what is civil disobedience and what is not. One of the most important ideas, to me, though, was … Continue reading
What do we do today?
I’ve been thinking and writing about Quaker queries for some time now. I’ve written about ways we use them, and how I as an individual use them as an important part of my spiritual practice. I am grateful some have … Continue reading
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Symbols
Continuing to study The Sacred Tree: Reflections on Native American Spirituality, I am reading about the importance of symbols. The Medicine Wheel is the ancient symbol used by most North and South American Native people. Many relationships can be expressed in sets … Continue reading
Quakers, social justice and revolution 