Tag: NEYM
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Still There and Always There
Don’t say, don’t say there is no water to solace the dryness at our hearts. I have seen the fountain springing out of the rock wall and you drinking there. And I too before your eyes found footholds and climbed to drink the cool water. The woman of that place, shading her eyes, frowned…
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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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Faith Beyond Walls
Margaret Fell, mother of the Quaker Movement, welcomes traveling ministers to Friends’ headquarters at Swarthmoor Hall. Created by First Day School of Middlebury (VT) Friends Meeting. Dear Friends, As we send this February newsletter, I’m reflecting on hospitality. This past month, as some in power have called for walls and bans—and many more have raised…
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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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On the Threshold
When I visited Friends in Vassalboro, Maine last month, I was blessed to have dinner with Paul and Elizabeth Cates at their home on the family’s flower farm just down the road from the Vassalboro meetinghouse. We had seen each other briefly at the Living Faith gathering at the Friends School of Portland a week…
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Election Results
November 9, 2016 Dear Friends throughout New England, As we gathered for our weekly worship this morning, we held all of you in prayer. From that worship, we feel led to write to you with a message of love, encouragement and support. In the aftermath of this week’s election, many who are grieving, angry, fearful…
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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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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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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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