Category: NEYM
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Becoming the Quakers the World Needs
Dear Friends, Last week I served in the role of spiritual elder, accompanying and supporting Lisa Graustein of Beacon Hill (MA) Friends Meeting as she led a daylong workshop in New Haven, Connecticut for educators, students and other civic leaders focusing on how our systems of education might be transformed to foster racial justice and healing of multi-generational…
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“What Would It Look Like…?”
…to come more fully alive, together? …for our faith communities to be filled with the power of the Spirit? …to heal the wounds of racism and ecological destruction? …to nurture a world of love and hope? In my service among Friends across New England, I’m blessed to glimpse the many ways we are living into the promise of all…
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Being the Hands of God: A Call to Radical Faithfulness
The theme of the 356th Annual Sessions was ”Being the Hands of God: A Call to Radical Faithfulness.” Doug Gwyn, pastor of Durham Friends Meeting in Maine, offered the Bible half hours each morning. Through stories of early Friends reclaiming the power they encountered in the Scriptures to build a world-changing movement in their time, we…
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Don’t Forget
Dear Friends, Are you interested in… a summary of public statements and actions taken in the past year to make more visible the witness of New England Friends news from the staff and committees of New England Yearly Meeting on the work they have done on our behalf in the past year a proposed budget for how we plan…
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Trying what Love will do
This week the news of two more shootings of black men by police sends our hearts reeling. We are praying, mourning, crying again for justice, for healing, for wholeness. The devastating bombing in Baghdad claiming hundreds of lives again lays bare both the enduring wounds of war and the flawed belief that violence can bring…
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A Prayer in response to the shootings at Pulse in Orlando
“How deeply we are connected.” A Prayer in response to the shootings at Pulse in Orlando. Friends believe there is that of God in all people. To intentionally harm another—with our actions, our words, or our policies—is to separate ourselves from God. We are here to love one another and to be loved as God…
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Winter Edition, The New England Friend
DEAR FRIENDS, I am pleased to share this online Winter Edition of the New England Friend. The focus of this issue is on how Friends across New England are engaged in the hard work of faithfulness—the acceptance that God is at work in the world and our participation in that work. There are reports from Friends engaged in…
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Now the Work of Christmas Begins
Dover (NH) Friends join with their neighbors to witness for racial justice. photo: David Holt When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins. To find the…
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NEYM Sessions 2015 Talking Points
Image by Kristina Keefe-Perry Friends, More than 600 Friends attended NEYM Sessions. 58 of those were first-time attenders, and 120 of them were youth. Together we came to unity on: Legacy Gift Committee: The New England Yearly Meeting Future Fund and the NEYM Released Ministry Fund are now named and established. Application guidelines will soon…
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