Author: Roger Vincent Jasaitis
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Our Increased Compassion, Not Our Hardened Hearts
Dear Friends, In recent days, Friends across New England have joined demonstrations and reached out with our neighbors to oppose President Trump’s Executive Order on refugees and immigration. We continue to hold all affected in the Light. May a deep well of prayer continue to ground our work and our witness in these times. To…
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MLK Jr Day Celebration
10TH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR CELEBRATION Sunday, January 15, 2017, 4PM Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro Sponsored by the Brattleboro Area Interfaith Clergy Association featuring SAMIRAH EVANS and friends SPAGHETTI DINNER FUNDRAISER, 5PM for the Brattleboro Area Interfaith Youth Group trip to South Dakota to work with and learn from the Cheyenne River Sioux after…
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On Recorded Ministers
Brian Drayton will be speaking at Putney Friends Meeting about being a recorded minister in New England Yearly Meeting. Putney is considering this topic in regards to the life of the Meeting. Brian will join us on: January 8th, 9:30am to 10:30am Putney Friends Meetinghouse Putney, Vermont All are welcome
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Friends, welcome prophets among us in these dark times!
To New England’s Meetings Dear Friends, Many of us are feeling under the weight of grief, fear, and anger in the face of national and world events. Many of us are digging deep, to feel where a prophetic response may be: Is there a word from the Lord that Friends are to carry at this…
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Epistle from Travelers to Standing Rock
To Friends In New England, We write to you on our return from the prayer encampment of the Oceti Sakowin—the Great Sioux Nation—in what is now known as the State of North Dakota. Led by the Standing Rock Sioux and the other tribes of the Seven Fires Council, thousands of Indigenous and non-Native people from across…
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Immigrant Rights
Immigrant rights Dear Friends, Like many of you, we at AFSC have spent much of the past two weeks grappling with the results of the election and what they mean for communities across the U.S.We don’t know what the next administration will bring, but there’s no doubt that immigrants and refugees face greater danger because…
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