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Convergent Friends
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Freedom Friends Church Faith and Practice
Freedom Friends Church in Salem Oregon is currently an independent meeting that has recently written their own Faith and Practice. A number
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Plan Ahead – Convergent Friends and New Monastics at Pendle Hill
Martin Kelley and I will be facilitating a weekend workshop at Pendle Hill this coming May (2010) that explores how tight-knit
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Meeting New Challenges Through Repetition
In every generation the church faces new, as well as old, challenges. For many years, Christendom allowed a basic stability within the culture for the church to remain in tact. It was a false
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Mind the Fire, Fan the Flame: A Message of Hope for Quakers
I’m currently digging through my research on Freedom Friends Church and found a blog post Liz Opp wrote awhile back that
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Blogging as Ministry in A Virtual World
Quaker blogger Robin Mohr has written a really thoughtful post, if you are interested in ministry in a web 2.0 culture
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Practicing Re-Collection (or Centering) Prayer
One thing that came out of our weekend retreat was a number of practices I want to work on and integrate into
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Stations of the Lord’s Prayer (A Worship Resource)
This past weekend at our convergent Quaker retreat we had both programmed (planned) and unprogrammed (silent) worship. For the programmed worship on Saturday morning I planned an interactive worship time based around the Lord’
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Reflections From The Convergent Retreat 2009
Since Martin and Robin, the two co-leaders with me of this past weeken’s retreat, have already written their first I
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Three Features of Everett Cattell’s Mission Theology
In preparation for the convergent Friends retreat this weekend I have been putting together some discussion notes on Everett Cattell. I will be presenting him as a “convergent Friend of the past” on Saturday
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Following the Convergent Retreat This Weekend
I’ve mentioned a few times that a bunch of us are getting together this weekend in Northern California for a convergent
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Join Us at the Convergent Friends Retreat in February
Robin, Martin and I will be co-leading a weekend retreat on convergent Friends we’re calling “Reclaiming the Power of Primitive
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MacIntyre And Church Renewal
I came across this Alasdair MacIntyre quote not long ago and thought it was a fitting reflection for the much-discussed topic
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Reclaiming the Power of Primitive Quakerism for the 21st Century
Robin, Martin and I are leading a weekend retreat at the Ben Lomond Quaker Retreat Center this coming February on convergent Friends,
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Five Years Ago and Convergent October 2008
Martin Kelley has written a post giving a little back history to what happened five years ago. Five years ago he started
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Remixing Faith in the 21st Century (Barclay Press)
I’ve posted my June essay on Barclay press if you care to have a read (it’s nice and long!). Here’s and excerpt: This past April Radiohead did another thing that sparked