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Six Months Quaker Preacher
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Being A “Released” Minister
I recently went through and changed most of my online profiles, email signatures, and even our bulletin for Sunday morning it from “pastor” to “released minister” as that language seems to fit where I
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There is No Time for Weeping (Jeremiah 8)
I thought I would post what I would have said, if I would have preached the other day. (Given that please forgive the very unpolished nature of this piece). The love of a Parent
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Interfaith Clergy Letter to the Editor in Clark County
(This is a letter a group of us from Clark County wrote in response to some of the controversy surrounding September 11th this past week. We submitted it to our local papers which did
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Camas Friends State of the Church Report
As I mentioned awhile back we have been working on our State of the Church report for the year. Well now it
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Unscheduled Time
Over the last week I’ve had a number of appointments cancel on me or just not show up. It’s only weird because it has happened with the last four meetings in a
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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 Testimony of Enough (Matthew 6:19-34)
Editorial note: This week we discussed over email the question “What comes to mind for you when you think of plainness (or simplicity)?” We had a ton of responses from people on our church’
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Composting Quakerism: A Podcast Of Quaker Ministers from the NW
Last fall a few of us (younger) Quaker ministers from the Northwest Yearly Meeting got together to start work on a podcast. After a little deliberation we decided to call it Composting Quakerism (Facebook
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Being Dad
Just the other day I said to my wife, Emily, “I really like being a dad.” I will tell our oldest daughter
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The Testimony of Truthfulness (Matt. 5:33-37)
Text from my sermon June 13, 2010. This morning we begin our summer long discussion on Quaker testimonies with the testimony of truthfulness, or what has more typically been called the testimony of truth-
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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, Feminine Divine and Proverbs 8
Last week we discussed Proverbs 8, here are some of my thoughts on the passage. Lets be honest here, the (divine
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Sometimes the Long Days Are Really Good
A lot of people want to know what a pastor does with her or his time throughout the day. I have one person who mentioned that they figured I had a lot of free
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Doing Film Events in the Church
One idea we’ve been doing at our church (Camas Friends) we started last fall, it’s called “Last Sunday’s for
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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