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More Detailed Information for Quaker Heritage Day
February 12-13 I will be in Berkeley (at Berkeley Friends Church) discussing some of my favorite topics with anyone who wants
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Brent Bill: A Modest Proposal – For the Revitalization of the Quaker Message in the United Staes
Brent Bill, Quaker, author, convergent Friend, and all around good guy, is beginning a series on his blog that I am really
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The Testimony of Witness
This is my sermon from Sunday. If you’d like a little background to this, you can check out yesterday’s post “In Search of a New Frame for Evangelism and Mission.” This is
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Quaker Youth Pilgrimage 2010 Epistle
Micah Bales, one of the leaders of the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage, just posted their Epistle from the trip on his blog. Here’
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Quaker Youth Pilgrimage Stops by Camas
This past weekend 29 youth and 3 adult leaders who have been traveling on a month long spiritual pilgrimage through the Pacific Northwest took a (planned) detour through Camas Washington and spent a few
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The Convergence of Quakerism – Ephesians 2:11ff
The text from my message given to Camas Friends Church June 6, 2010 Personal Histories In the last couple weeks, I have been reflecting a lot on my own history, my own personal narratives
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Lady Wisdom as Mid-Wife (Proverbs 8)
While I was at Pendle Hill a couple weeks back I mentioned there was a lot of talk about meeting houses closing, there was a lot of talk about death, some literal death, some
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Movements and Common Language of the Spirit – Acts 2
Last week I wrote a little about our experience of visiting another Quaker meeting in Portland last Sunday. During that time of open worship I thought some about Acts 2 and Pentecost. It was
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Building Networks of Support and Eldering
There’s a lot to say about this past weekend retreat on Convergent Friends and New Monasticism and it’s going to take me some time to unpack all the various experiences, ideas and
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New Monastics and Convergent Friends Retreat Outline
Martin Kelley and I will be leading a weekend retreat at Pendle Hill in just a couple weeks (May 14-16) and
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A New “Convergent” Mapping Project hits the Web
Martin Kelley isn’t the only one really excited about the new Quakermaps.com project from Micah Bales and Jon Watts. While
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New Convergent Friends Article (Quaker Studies)
Next time you find your way to a university library you should pick up the latest copy of Quaker Studies journal (Volume 14, Issue 2 March 2010). My first journal article, “Convergent Friends: The
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One Take On the Importance of the Quaker Practice of “Open Worship”
Adrian Halverstadt, a Quaker pastor, asks this question on the QuakerQuaker forum boards: I have been thinking a lot about open worship these days. Many of the larger evangelical Friends churches no longer practice
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A Thought for Quakers on Change
I am preparing my discussion for our Sunday morning meeting for worship and am thinking a lot about what Kester Brewin calls
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We All Know That Reality has a Well-Known “Conservative” Bias
One of the things my favorite (fake) newscaster Stephan Colbert says on a regular bias is that “Major media has a well-known liberal bias.” And this is definitely something many people believe. This