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Practices
58 posts
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A Hat Trick For Supporting Curiosity and Growth
I have a little trick, it’s kind of silly, but it helps me when I’m in trouble. I do it
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Let’s Get Bored Together: The Practice of Silence and Resisting the Attention Economy
I am teaching a class this semester at Guilford College called, “The Practice of Silence.” The class is both what it sounds like and a lot more. We are studying the Quaker theology behind
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Grief is Disconnection
A repost from November 16, 2022 Today, I was approached by a member of my workplace about hosting a space for grieving for folks who continue to struggle after painful decisions made in 2019-
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A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William E. Stafford
I love William Stafford‘s poetry. I came across him when we were still living in the Pacific Northwest where he is
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Elizabeth Gurney Fry’s Checklist
I’m am interested in checklists, setting annual goals for myself, and working on specific habits I want to create or break. For example, I am currently working on a 2020 goal of “building
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End of the Year Reflections
We had some friends over for New Year’s, which was a lot of fun and just the right way to close out the year. Having a variety of people from across various social
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On Traveling in the Ministry
Learning How to Travel in the Ministry: The Past Bears Weight on the Present This is a post I’ve been wanting to write about my traveling in the ministry with Lloyd Lee Wilson,
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A New Kind of Nursery of Truth – Part 3
This is the third of a three-part series on whether or not Quakers can be “Publishers of Truth” today. In this series I want to talk about how I think early Quakers understood
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Outline for a Candlelight Christmas Eve Worship Service
Immanuel, God With Us. I enjoy putting together meditative worship services. A couple years back I posted this resource for using with
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Participatory Church and the Trials of Falling Asleep (Luke 22:39-46)
“He came out and went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives; and the disciples followed him. When he reached the place, he said to them, “Pray that you may not come
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Meeting is a Muscle: Teaching Worship To Children / Chad Stephenson
This is a guest post written by Chad Stephenson a Quaker from San Francisco. It is a response to the Friends Journal article “Bringing Children to Worship” and my follow-up article found here.
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Describing “Silent” Worship to Children
Awhile back I did a Godly Play story during our meeting for worship. We invited the children to say with the adults and participate in our listening to the story. After the story we
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Thoughts on Bringing Children To Worship
As parents bringing children and teens to a time of worship can be a struggle. We place a lot of expectations on our kids and often hope they won’t “misbehave” during church. Plus,
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Curators and Caretakers and the Practice of Giving (Gen 1. 28)
* “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule…all the living things that creep on earth.” _Curators and Caretakers The church often uses the word “stewardship” to generalize things that
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Occupy and Convergent Friends
A couple of years ago I had an article published in the Quaker Studies periodical called “Convergent Friends: The Emergence of Postmodern Quakerism” that attempted to identify some of the features of convergent Friends.