Category Archives: Quaker Faith Today

Appreciating Inner Images

Posted on November 7, 2022 by friendmarcelle

One of the most powerful ways to help people open up to divine guidance is to assist them in exploring key images that they receive inwardly. These images might come during a dream, but also while engaging in activity, or … Continue reading →

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Invitation to Quaker Eldering

Posted on November 3, 2022 by friendmarcelle

Early in the Quaker movement, Friends recognized that the living Spirit of God was guiding them directly without need of intermediaries. Members of the faith community were given particular gifts of the Spirit for the benefit of all. Not all … Continue reading →

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Between This Life and the Next

Posted on October 17, 2022 by friendmarcelle

About a year after my friend Jim died, I began to sense–or imagine–that from the next life he was somehow nudging me to write about my experience of his dying and death–and what happened afterwards. It was as though he … Continue reading →

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A Hand Across the Ocean

Posted on September 18, 2022 by friendmarcelle

I’m grieving the death of my brilliant young friend Rachel, a Quaker climate specialist and university teacher who has died suddenly. I met Rachel almost twenty years ago when she was the young Friend sent by Britain Yearly Meeting (Quakers) … Continue reading →

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Earth Day S.O.S.

Posted on April 27, 2022 by friendmarcelle

On a lovely spring day, Earth Day, we drove forty minutes from our home in Chester, one of the poorest cities in Pennsylvania, to the headquarters of Vanguard, a company that manages more than $7 trillion in financial assets. In … Continue reading →

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Quaker Wisdom for the Spiritual Journey

Posted on March 1, 2022 by friendmarcelle

When I took a 9-day solitary retreat this winter, I brought three slim books with me to provide spiritual guidance and companionship, for those moments when I needed some help to turn again to the wisdom that comes from the … Continue reading →

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One With God And Each Other

Posted on February 16, 2022 by friendmarcelle

In preparation for an online conversation and exploration of how we can be more receptive to the gathered meeting, I’ve been reading everything I can get my hands on that’s been written about the amazing experience of entering what can … Continue reading →

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The Radical Quaker Spiritual Journey

Posted on January 26, 2022 by friendmarcelle

Earlier this month I was fortunate to be able to spend nine days in a hermitage on the edge of some woods. I went for many reasons: rest; renewal; reconnecting (with God, nature, and my soul); deep inward listening; discernment; … Continue reading →

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Opening to Our Direct Connection with the Divine

Posted on August 20, 2021 by friendmarcelle

When I was in my mid-twenties, my graduate school program was not meeting my great longing to understand the nature of reality. I began to seek inwardly. Yearning to know what life was about, I paid attention to my inner … Continue reading →

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Eating for the Planet

Posted on July 21, 2021 by friendmarcelle

When I was a teenager, I was inspired by Frances Moore Lappe’s book Diet for a Small Planet. I read it as part of my research for the high school debate team; that year the nation-wide topic was how to … Continue reading →

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