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Yearly Meeting Consultation on Climate Change
Dear Friends, At last year’s Annual Sessions, New England Yearly Meeting affirmed a Divine call to the witness of addressing climate change, and encouraged all local meetings to consider how they might further respond. On April 22 Friends will gather at Friends Meeting at Cambridge (MA) for a Yearly Meeting Consultation on Climate Change. This…
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On Recorded Ministers
Brian Drayton will be speaking at Putney Friends Meeting about being a recorded minister in New England Yearly Meeting. Putney is considering this topic in regards to the life of the Meeting. Brian will join us on: January 8th, 9:30am to 10:30am Putney Friends Meetinghouse Putney, Vermont All are welcome
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Friends, welcome prophets among us in these dark times!
To New England’s Meetings Dear Friends, Many of us are feeling under the weight of grief, fear, and anger in the face of national and world events. Many of us are digging deep, to feel where a prophetic response may be: Is there a word from the Lord that Friends are to carry at this…
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A Call to Prayer and Support for Standing Rock
November 3, 2016 In North Dakota, the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies are struggling for the future of their land and people. Where those without worldly power stand in the Truth in the face of empire, God is at work and our faith calls us to support them. For months, the Indigenous people leading…
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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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A Community Conversation on Policing
PLEASE JOIN US FOR A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION POLICING IN BRATTLEBORO JULY 27, 2016 5:00 TO 7:30 At the RIVER GARDEN 157 Main Street, Brattleboro Our Panel: Ken Williams (Interim Dean, S.I.T.), Chief Michael Fitzgerald (Brattleboro Police Dep’t), Dan Davis, Esq., José Moldando, Orlando Alverez, Patrina Lingard (moderator), and Darah Kehnemuyi (Director, Brattleboro Community Justice Center) …
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Black Lives Matter Stolen
We Quakers here in Putney Vermont arrived at Worship today to find that our “Black Lives Matter”sign in front of our Meeting house was stolen some time this week. To quote from our minute on Black Lives Matter; “What’s important for us is that it’s not just a sign, not just a statement, it’s a commitment…
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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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