Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey
Marcelle Martin's book, Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, explores ten elements of the spiritual experience of Quakers. It is a great resource for study groups to explore these elements of spiritual experience in our own lives. See the Publication page for more information. * * * * * * * * Marcelle is available to lead workshops and retreats and to give talks. See the Teaching and Upcoming Workshops page.-
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Category Archives: Facing Life with Faith
An Introduction to Faithfulness Groups: a book, video, and online workshop
Participating in an ongoing faithfulness group has provided crucial accompaniment in my spiritual journey. This practice can be of great value to anyone seeking to follow God’s guidance in their lives, anyone wanting to live according to their deepest purpose, … Continue reading
Posted in Facing Life with Faith, Following a Leading, Quaker Faith Today, Radical Christianity, spiritual practices
Tagged A Guide to Faithfulness Groups, clearness committees, divine guidance, evolutionary impulse, Faithfulness Groups, Inner Light Books, leadings of the Spirit, Marcelle Martin, Nurturing Faithfulness, Our Life is Love, Rachel Guaraldi, Releasing Ministry, spiritual community, spiritual intimacy, supporting the spiritual journey, Zoom Opp
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Choose Life: the Global Climate Strike
When I arrived at the Sept 20, 2019 Global Climate Strike, my first sight of the crowd lifted my spirits in a way I hadn’t expected. All the images of the planet, most on handmade signs, made me realize that … Continue reading
Posted in All of Life is Sacred, environmental activism, Facing Life with Faith, Quaker Faith Today, Working for Peace and Justice
Tagged choose life, climate change, climate justice, Deuteronomy 30:15. Deuteronomy 30:19-20, Global Climate Strike, global consciousness, global warming, Paris Climate Accord, Philadelphia, planetary consciousness, Sabirah Mahmud, schoolchildren
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A Leading of the Spirit: Witness to Peacemaking and War
Lyndon Back’s life was happily settled. But everything changed in 1993, when a beautiful old bridge collapsed. Until then, the war in Bosnia had been a distant event seen on the nightly news. After she watched the Stari Most Bridge shatter, she suddenly needed to … Continue reading
Posted in Facing Life with Faith, Following a Leading, Quaker Faith Today, Working for Peace and Justice
Tagged accompaniment, Balkans Peace Team, Belgrade, Bosnia, clearness committee, Community of Bosnia Foundation, concern, God, grace, leading, leading of the Spirit, Lyndon Back, ministry of witness, NATO bombing of Kosovo, Quakers, Serbia, Stari Most, Treading Water at the Shark Cafe, Tuzla, Yugoslavia
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