It has now become a running joke amongst my small group in Portland. We meet once a month to talk together about spiritual and emotional growth and for the past several months we have been focusing on the enneagram which we have loved looking at together. For those who know the enneagram, I am a […]
As I’ve already posted, the day after I attended North Pacific Yearly Meeting, I attended North West Yearly Meeting and these experiences got me thinking about all the times I’ve spent with other Quakers and what that has been like for me. North West Yearly Meeting was an entirely different experience from the previous day.
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The next afternoon, I geared up for round two. North West Yearly Meeting, the other for our area, was just starting their Yearly Meeting at George Fox University in Newberg, the Evangelical Quaker Mecca. I thought it would be interesting going to the meetings back to back for comparison’s sake. I had arranged to attend
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The place was extremely familiar to me, the event I was going to was not. For weeks I had been talking with people and making connections before attending the North Pacific Yearly Meeting for Quakers. I was looking forward to the event. I had never attended either yearly meeting for my area but was excited
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It’s been a while since I posted. I often think of different topics but then get too busy to actually post. Two weeks ago I started a new job and am on that classic uphill climb more commonly known as the “learning curve”. I now know more than I ever thought I would about tattooing,
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This weekend I learned first-hand that I can do far more than I ever thought I could. Finding this out was very freeing and opened my eyes to a new whole world of possibilities, not anything specific, but a general question of, “What can I now do I didn’t think I could before?” Limits were
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Call for Submissions The Quaker Youth Book Project of Quakers Uniting in Publications (QUIP) will feature short, multilingual, non-fiction prose, poetry and visual art by international young Quakers, approximately between the ages of 15-35, from all branches of the Religious Society of Friends, including programmed, unprogrammed, conservative and evangelical traditions. The creative work included will
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Yesterday morning I was sitting in a health classroom with a bunch of seventh graders, both boys and girls, watching a video called, “The Truth About Sex”. It made me sick. I felt like I had taken a bunch of toxins into my body and I wanted to spew them out. The students took in
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Saturday night I went to go see LiveWire! up in Portland. I think the author interviews are my favorite. Being an author can be quite solitary at times so it’s always fun to hear about it from another’s point of view. It’s nice to know there are others living that life and working with the
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One afternoon in my “Ministry To and With Adults” class at George Fox Seminary, a fellow student was showing us some group exercises we could use by actually having us do them. One of these “ice-breakers” was a rotational discussion. We were in two rows of facing chairs with three questions on the board.
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