Category: NEYM
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Towards What We Can Become
May 18, 2020 Dear Friends, Across New England, people are talking about “re-opening”. After much anticipation in the media, today the State of Massachusetts released guidelines (here) for houses of worship as some public health restrictions are being lifted. While other states in our region are moving on their own timelines, events seem to be…
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Coronavirus Update: A Love Wide Enough
Sunrise over Cobscook Bay. Photo: Janet Hough, Cobscook (ME) Friends Meeting. Dear Friends, Well and weary. Ruffled and stabilizing. Disconnected and connected. More settled and more scared. Strained and joyful. Grieving and expectant. When we asked Friends on our Tuesday night check-in how their local Meeting community was doing this week, their answers reflected the…
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Coronavirus Update: Living—and Acting On—Our Faith
Dear Friends, In New England’s natural landscapes, April is a time of renewed tenderness, and of breaking open. This year, amid the new buds and birdsong, many Friends are seeking ways to slow down and stay open—and to be made tender—to new Life within and among us, even while meetinghouses and public gathering places are…
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Coronavirus Update: To Bless the Space Between Us
3/20/2020 It’s okay to feel overwhelmed. It’s okay to be fearful. It’s okay to have a sense of unreality. It’s okay not to be able to function normally. Those feelings don’t have to be denied—in fact they need to be embraced. Whenever we have feelings which shake up our world, we have to be willing to…
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Yoked
SEPTEMBER 2019 Dear Friends, Most years, on Indigenous People’s Day (“Columbus Day”) weekend, I go to the Sandwich (NH) Fair. A good old-fashioned fair, this includes gymkhana events; 4-H kids showing off their pigs, sheep and oxen; and lots of fried food. I always migrate to the horse pull, where pairs of draft horses pull a…
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Annual Sessions Registration Open Now!
Dear Friends, For 359 years, Quakers in New England have gathered for worship, spiritual nurture, fellowship and discernment of our shared calling. Online Registration for Annual Sessions 2019 is now open! Register Now
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The Living Faith of the Dead
Dear Friends,Three weeks ago, I was blessed to be with Quakers in Ireland. The day before the yearly meeting sessions began in Dublin, Irish Friends gave me a special gift—the opportunity to visit the burial place of Job Scott. Job was a New England Quaker and traveling minister from Rhode Island whose preaching and writing were…
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The Purpose of Wings
Dear Friends, Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to gather with Friends from across New England and New York Yearly Meetings to explore the ways we “hold the whole” of our spiritual communities. Hearing from people about their experiences, I was moved by this reflection from Kathleen Wooten of Fresh Pond (MA) Friends Meeting, and…
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The Yet-Unknowable Shore
Share Tweet Forward MARCH 2019 The Yet-Unknowable Shore La Loma de La Cruz, Holguin, Cuba. Photo: Noah Merrill “But you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live.” And the LORD continued, “See there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock; and while my glory passes…
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