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My dear friends, dwell in humility… (Woolman)
At Camas Friends Church, we’re reading through the journal of John Woolman, a Quaker minister and abolitionist from the 18th century.
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Practicing Discernment Together as a Church
About a month ago we began a Wednesday evening meeting at Camas Friends (the Quaker meeting I pastor). The goal of these meetings are to build our friendships with each other (so we eat
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John Greenleaf Whittier: The Eternal Goodness
The other evening I was fortunate enough to join some of our local unprogrammed Quaker friends in a meeting for worship. I needed and really appreciated the worship in silence. It is nice to
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Morning Prayer by Henry T. Hodgkin
I ran across this prayer from Quaker Henry T. Hodgkin (1877-1933) in the most recent Friends Journal issue on Pendle Hill: Firm when all round me is in flux and seething Strong when
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On Love, Meekness and Watching Over Each Other (Isaac Penington 1667)
My friend Vail Palmer recently recommended to me to read Isaac Pennington’s book of letters. While I was at George Fox University this week for a conference on discernment and leadership I took
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The Present Work of Atonement
Came across this quote today by one of my favorite theologians and it sums up in a really nice way some of
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Prayers: Elizabeth Woolman
I’ve recently re-read John Woolman’s Journal and have found it to be very challenging and nurturing once again. If you haven’t read it yet I can’t recommend it enough
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Ancient Paths
Read this today and found it inspiring: It is of the new things that men tire – of fashions and proposals and improvements and change. It is the old things that startle and intoxicate. It
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The Peace of Wild Things – Wendell Berry
THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives
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A Silencing Witness
Came across this quote today and found it to be particularly good in relationship to the text I’m reflecting on this
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A ‘Missional’ Church Statement
Here’s one of my favorite missional church statements of all time: In the power of life and wisdom, and dread of
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“How to Be a Poet” by Wendell Berry
(to remind myself) i Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. You must depend upon affection, reading, knowledge, skill
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The End of Words
Quaker theologian Isaac Penington once wrote: And the end of words is to bring [humanity] to the knowledge of things beyond what
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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Thinking about this poem today: Tell all the Truth but tell it slant— Success in Cirrcuit lies Too bright for our infirm
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The Love of a Parent
I love this quote from Frederick Buechner: “‘He who loves has fifty woes … who loves none has no woe,’ said the Buddha,
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