One of my very favorite teachers from high school is absolutely delighted I am with the Quaker church, thrilled I agree that the way to peace is not through violence. Being a Mennonite, we are what you could call peace testimony cousins and she really likes that fact. As a high school student, I wouldn’t […]
We arrived to the Pacific Northwest Quaker Women’s Theology Conference yesterday in the late afternoon. The grounds are beautiful. To get here, you have to cross a wooden bridge over a lagoon where at the end, you can turn around and gaze at the beautiful bay of water before you surrounded by trees and a
Wow!!! What a day! I kept hearing those words, “We the People”. They have made me think a lot about what they mean. Being in the place in which our country was created certainly brings them home in a whole new way. It is amazing how much I fit into one day. It felt like
Sitting in front of me were thirteen women, most of them African, expectantly looking at me to tell them about women in ministry. They were strong women with gifts and talents, a desire to serve, and living in a culture that generally speaking, does not give them many rights of their own. One of the
I had an interesting question asked of me tonight. A friend observed that the Quakers have invested a great deal in me with all I have been involved with among them. (THANK YOU!!!) Having only been in the Quaker church for three years, my friend wanted to know if I was committed to them, if
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(For those of you who don’t know, I am an Editorial Board member for the Quaker Youth Book Project. This letter is from our Project Coordinator, Angelina, and is being distributed to Quakers around the world.) Dear Friends, We’re excited to announce that it is now possible to donate to the Quaker Youth Book Project
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As many of you know from reading my blog, I was invited to be one of the speakers on a panel at Willamette Quarterly Meeting, a part of North Pacific Yearly Meeting, October 3rd-5th. It’s strange to have a dream for much of my life not knowing how I would reach it but holding to
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In the summer of 1994, I was on choir tour with my youth group through the Western United States. Our choir, “One Heart”, toured for two weeks every year. During my first tour, we were standing in a basement in California being taught our history. In that room underneath the church, we saw the “Holy
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