Blog Posts

But Will It Make You Happy?

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Jason Minnix, a friend and Quaker pastor, emailed this article to the NWYM pastor’s email list. I think it’s a good article worth discussion around the coffee table this week. She had so

Quaker Youth Pilgrimage 2010 Epistle

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Micah Bales, one of the leaders of the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage, just posted their Epistle from the trip on his blog. Here’s one section that particularly stands out to me, especially after my recent

A Blessing and a Benediction – Margaret Fell

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I’ve been reading “Undaunted Zeal: The Letters of Margaret Fell” for school the last week or so and have found many gems in her writing. Margaret Fell is an early force within Quakerism often

David Bazan Tour Documentary

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As you already know I am a big David Bazan fan. Here’s a really great short film/documentary with a couple songs and some great footage. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzKB6MTCxGA?

And We’re Back!

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Some of you may have noticed that over the last week this blog had a little bit of trouble. It got attacked by malware and was trying to spread that to anyone who visited the

State of the Meeting Reports (Not Just Yet)

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I decided I wanted to jump start a new tradition at Camas Friends today so I took the initiative and ran with it. I’ve been working on a state of the meeting report with

The New Quaker Ad Network

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Just a quick note to say that Martin Kelley and Friends Journal have teamed up to create the Quaker Ad Network. Which is a pretty cool way for Quaker organizations, ministries and individuals to get

Conversion(s) c

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This is a continuation from posts a and b. I’ve caught myself in the last few years reacting to my Evangelical upbringing around conversion. Why does it have to look and sound one way

Marriage Advice from Barrow Cadbury 1933

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While preparing for a wedding this coming Saturday I ran across this quote from Barrow Cadbury (a Quaker who was related to and worked in the Cadbury Chocolate factory in Bournville England) on marital advice.

There is No Pure Christianity

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A long while back a friend of mine wrote on his twitter this remark: There is no pure Christianity, it is all syncretist. And I agree with this point, all Christianity today is influenced to

An Uneasy Task for the Church – Romero

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This is the mission entrusted to the church, a hard mission: to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from the political order, to uproot sins from the economy, to uproot sins wherever they are.