Category: Noah Baker Merrill
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Our Common Life
Our Common Life One of the most enlivening aspects of my work is visiting local meetings across New England, connecting with Friends and encouraging the Life of the Spirit in the Quaker Movement. In my travels in recent years—in meetings small and large, pastoral and unprogrammed, urban and rural, with meetinghouses and without—I’ve noticed similarities that seem…
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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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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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It Started with $5
Dear Friends, I can still remember the first time I chose to make a financial contribution to the ministry of our yearly meeting. As a young adult traveling in the ministry, living with student loans and an uncertain future, my resources were limited. Like many of us, I grew up with a sense of…
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Read The New England Friend online.
DEAR FRIENDS, I’m pleased to share with you the latest online edition of The New England Friend. Read The New England Friend online One of the great joys of my work is getting to see new Life rising up in so many corners of our Quaker community. In a season when our society and our world seem besieged by…
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How Quakers Can Transform The World
Noah Baker Merrill expresses how Quakers can transform the world in this QuakerSpeak video:
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PFM Member Recommended To Serve As NEYM Field Secretary
From NEYM’s Webpage: With joy and anticipation, Permanent Board will bring the name of Noah Baker Merrill to NEYM Annual Sessions in early August for approval as Yearly Meeting secretary, beginning January 1, 2013. Noah and his wife Natalie are members of Putney (VT) Monthly Meeting, where Noah has been released* for service in the…
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Putney Friends Focus on the 2012 World Conference of Friends — June 10
On Sunday, June 10, two members of Putney Friends Meeting will report on their experience this April attending the 2012 World Conference of Friends in Kenya. Noah Baker-Merrill and Rosemary Zimmerman will share photos and stories from the conference, which was the largest worldwide conference of Friends since 1967. The Conference included Quakers from many…
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PFM Member Writes Article On Occupy Movement For AFSC
At the invitation of the American Friends Service Committee, PFM member Noah Baker Merrill has written an article on the growing Occupy Together movement. This thoughtful piece was recently posted on the AFSC website and is called “Occupy Together: We Are All Moses.” Here are just the first two paragraphs: On what was perhaps the…
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