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Poverty, Empire and The Bible: Reading the Bible Off-Center (an online study)
Last night about 35 people from around the Greensboro area gathered at First Friends Meeting to begin a conversation around how we can read and re-read the Bible in ways that not only
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Revelation and Angelic Troublemaking
Over the last century, the book of Revelation has lost its edge in the West. What was understood as a letter written
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Empire & The Multitude (Rev 7)
Here is the message I shared at College Park Baptist Church in Greensboro, NC on July 31, 2016. Cross posted from my medium blog. The Rally Thank you for inviting me here this morning
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Being bilingual in Quaker Outreach (Guest Post Robin Mohr)
This is a guest post from my good friend and General Secretary of FWCC Section of the Americas, Robin Mohr, following up on a talk she gave at the Emerging Practices in Quaker Outreach
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Brother’s K, Liturgy and Broken People
“But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.” (Revelation 12:11)
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Blocking and Quakerism as a “No” Tradition
The Quaker movement began like other Radical Reformation traditions, rejecting the basic Christian creeds. This wasn’t because they weren’t Christian,
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Renewal and Outreach
I had the opportunity to spend time with a number of Friends in New England this past weekend to discuss the importance
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The Lamb That Was Slain and the Politics of Scapegoating (Rev. 5:11-15)
This is the message I brought to Deep River Friends Church on April 11, 2016. A Revelation about Revelation I wanted to speak to you this morning from the book of Revelation, but as
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A Concise Sermon on the Mount by Peggy Morrison
We currently have this up on the white board at Friends Center and we’ve been discussing it in various groups. It has generated a lot of good conversation and it seemed right to
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A Listening That is So Alive
Douglas Steere speaks of listening to one another with a depth that might change the speaker, and also the listener. He uses Kierkegaard’s image of vocal ministry in describing this listening which is
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Fear as a Prison
In The Way of Love, Anthony de Mello writes about the prisons we each live in created by layers of beliefs, ideas,
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Life is a symphony – Anthony de Mello
I love this whole meditation on life and the sympathy from Anthony de Mello but this line in particular continues to ring in my heart. …You will no longer say to your friend, “How
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“We” Is the Most Important Word – William Barber
“‘We’ is the most important word in the social justice vocabulary. The issue is not what we can’t do, but what we CAN do when we stand together. With an upsurge in racism/
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Listening and Acting In Quaker Communities
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8PABPq8AA&w=560&h=315] There is so much back and forth on Quaker process. So many jokes. So many who easily dismiss it because
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Why I Am Celebrating World Sketchnote Day #SNday2016!
The sketchnoting community is participating in “World Sketchnote Day.” Before I knew about the word “sketchnote” I had some idea of taking
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