For about three years, I took spiritual refuge in an unprogrammed Friends (Quaker) meeting in West Texas. The meeting didn’t own their own facilities, so we either met for worship in the children’s education rooms of a local community church or had brunch and bible study at the clerk’s home. Each time, we all settled […]
A lesson in decision-making from the Quakers
The expectant waiting of unprogrammed Quakers was one of the things that drew me into the fellowship of Friends eight years ago, and I’m still learning about how local meetings practice it. George Fox University professor Cherice Bock recently wrote a fascinating blog on the ways that Quakers worship and discern together. Bock is part […]
The root of solidarity
All species and the Earth itself have interdependent roles within Creation. Humankind is not the species to whom all others are subservient, but one among many. All parts, all issues, are inextricably intertwined. Indeed the web of creation could be described as of three-ply thread: wherever we touch it we affect justice and peace and […]