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Living Faith Spring 2018
Dear Friends, Registration is now open for the next Living Faith gathering, to be held Saturday, April 14 in Portland, Maine! Please share the invitation with your networks, including meeting email lists, newsletters, announcements, social media, and word of mouth. We hope to see you there. In the Light, The Living Faith Spring 2018 Planning…
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Our Hearts are Broken
March 1, 2018 Dear Friends, Again, our hearts are broken by news of a school shooting. Galen Hamann of Providence (RI) Meeting, Director of Friends Education at Moses Brown School, writes to us asking: “What do we say to our children who ask why schools aren’t safe places?” She shares the first query raised…
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Healing Mind Body and Spirit: Care for the Caregivers
Healing Mind Body and Spirit: Care for the Caregivers Are you someone who takes the time to call people, or to hold them in your prayers when you know they are having a hard time? Do you help organize rides for older Friends who wouldn’t otherwise be able to make it to worship? Do people…
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Immigrant communities seeking justice
Dear Friends Earlier this week, we asked you to contact your senators to help stop billions of dollars in additional spending for border enforcement, advocate for paths to citizenship, and support policies that keep families together. Yesterday the Senate voted on four problematic immigration proposals that would have deeply impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrants. I’m…
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Support Gun Violence Protection bills before the Vermont legislature
“A Public Hearing on three legislative bills on Domestic Violence and Gun Violence Protection” at The Statehouse in Montpelier Tuesday January 30 at 5:30 PM How you can help if you can’t attend……… You can still send a strong message right from your phone It’s simple and it’s easy. Call the Sargeant at Arms at…
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Embraced by the Mystery
Dear Friends, Have you ever had the experience of being in meeting for worship, wondering whether a message that’s rising within you in the stillness is for you to speak, and then hearing the same message—maybe in different words—given through the voice of another Friend? I had an experience like that this week, and I…
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Shine your Light
One small section of the 30 foot inspirational mural created during the Putney Friends Meeting Retreat.
Putney Friends Meeting 