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Quotations
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No History In the Empire
I’ve been reading a lot of commentary on the prophets, specifically on Jeremiah lately. I came across this quote today in
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A Prayer from John Bellars
I was reading an essay from T. Vail Palmer this morning on titled “Religion and Ethics in the Thought of John Bellars”
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A Prayer For All Those Beginning a New School Year
Today begins a new semester for many beginning or returning to college, and if seminary and graduate school has not begun for
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But the Good of Others, This Love is Lost
Isaac Penington was one of the earliest Quakers, he and his wife Mary were convinced after a long period of seeking, some
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Compassion Comes By Way of Gentleness
I subscribe to Sojourner’s Daily Verse and Voice and almost always find it inspiring. Today’s “voice” reminded me that all
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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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A Blessing and a Benediction – Margaret Fell
I’ve been reading “Undaunted Zeal: The Letters of Margaret Fell” for school the last week or so and have found many
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Marriage Advice from Barrow Cadbury 1933
While preparing for a wedding this coming Saturday I ran across this quote from Barrow Cadbury (a Quaker who was related to
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Psalm 52: A Letter to Wall Street and Those of Similar Persuasion
Psalm 52. He and she who has ears to hear let them listen. To the fat cats of American capitalism: Why do
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An Uneasy Task for the Church – Romero
This is the mission entrusted to the church, a hard mission: to uproot sins from history, to uproot sins from the political
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The Spirit Skips, God Dances
During worship at Multnomah Meeting on Sunday I kept thinking about the fact that it was Pentecost Sunday and reflecting on the
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The Cross of Repentance: Thoughts on Forgiveness and Confession
For the Third Month of the 2010 Friends’ Calendar this quote sits above the dates: The life of the cross is a life of the cross of repentance…Most of those who inform us
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Berrigan on Prayer
This quote caught my attention today: And then there is the question of prayer, which consists for the most part in inisiting that God do for us what we are unwilling to do for
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(mis)Quote of the Day: Jesus and Equipment
The recent arrest of a “Christian” militia group (yea Ohio and Michigan) has made international news (just what I want my friends
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Christ would not be Redeemer
Today is the feast of Oscar Romero so as I think about his work today and pray for all those who are
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