Author: Roger Vincent Jasaitis
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With Our Whole Hearts
Dear Friends, I’ve been ill for the past few weeks, so I hope you’ll forgive my not sharing a longer reflection this month. Last week, with support from many Friends, our presiding clerk and I published a public statement on behalf of Quakers in New England, “The Love that Overcomes.” You can read the letter here.…
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Civil Resistance Documentary Films Launch
Dear Friends, Our former member at Putney Friends Meeting, Steve Chase, has shared these free resources in non-violent resistance. Civil Resistance Documentary Films Launch Dear Friends, BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!: We just posted five critically acclaimed documentary films on civil resistance on our website, in English as well as translated into over 20 languages. Originally available only on DVD or videocassette, and…
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The Love That Overcomes
November 3, 2018 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God –Romans 8:38-39 This week, Quaker communities of faith across…
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Free the Children
Photo: Jon Krieg/AFSC Dear Friends As President Trump announced in his press conference yesterday, his administration is working on a new plan to detain immigrant families indefinitely. I want to make sure you know there is a public comment period that allows you to weigh in on this cruel proposal – and the deadline is…
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Now is the time to stand up for more humane values
EMERGENCY RESPONSE Yesterday the Trump administration announced the deployment of more than 5,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. In El Paso and other ports of entry, border agents have been seen in riot gear conducting exercises. Now is the time to stand up for more humane values. Will you help fund AFSC’s emergency response to…
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Putney Area CASP meeting
Putney Area CASP meeting (Community Asylum Seekers Project) Thursday, October 25, 6:30pm at the Putney Friends Meeting House Please join us for a simple potluck supper followed by a meeting to update us on CASP’s work in southeastern Vermont and to strategize our next steps in the Putney area as we seek to support…
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Three Days Left to Give
Three Days Left to Give Here we have a prospect of one common interest from which our own is inseparable, that to turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives… …
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Member News: Chloe Learey
VTDigger Report Chloe Learey: Strategies to increase child care slots Editor’s note: This commentary is by Chloe Learey, executive director of the Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development in Brattleboro, and a member of the Building Bright Futures State Advisory Council. The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce recently named her Entrepreneur of the…
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New England Yearly Meeting 2018 State of Society Report
Dear Friends, This year the 32 members of New England Yearly Meeting Ministry and Counsel read all 35 of the State of Society reports that were sent to us from local meetings across New England. At our meeting in May we walked around the room and drew pictures and wrote phrases about “what had life”…
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A Deeper Hope
SEPTEMBER 2018 A Deeper Hope Dear Friends, In my morning devotional time since Annual Sessions, I’ve been reading Howard Thurman’s Jesus and the Disinherited, a foundational reflection by Thurman, the Black theologian, preacher, professor, activist and mystic whose work helped inspire the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and who was a student and friend…
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