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: Quaker Faith Today
Creating Loving Community by Supporting Faithfulness
When I prayed about my Pendle Hill lecture in advance–held it in the Light and listened inwardly for God’s guidance–two strong messages came to me. The first was to let the event BE what it was talking about. This meant … 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 committee, facing climate change, faithfulness group, holding in the Light, Marcelle Martin, minute of religious service, mutual spiritual accountability, Pendle Hill, Pendle Hill lecture, spiritual support, supporting calls and leadings, Swarthmore Meeting
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An Introduction to Faithfulness Groups
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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An Australian Quaker’s Transforming Encounter With Jesus
David Johnson seems an unlikely person to write a book about the Gospel of John. He had a long career as a geology professor and co-authored a standard textbook on the geology of Australia. His book reveals that when he … Continue reading
Giving Birth to Christ in Our Time
As Christmas nears, I often think of words by Meister Eckhart, a radical 14th-century Dominican priest, who said, We are all meant to be mothers of God. What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the Divine … Continue reading
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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An Ancient Forest and the Ground of Being
We had waited a long time to walk among those ancient trees. Finally we rented a cabin in Cook Forest State Park, and there we were, walking between towering pines and hemlocks. Some are as old as Quakerism, having gotten … Continue reading
Posted in All of Life is Sacred, Contemplative spirituality, Quaker Faith Today, Radical Christianity, spiritual practices
Tagged Cook Forest, gathered worship, God, Ground of Being, hemlock, Joan Maloof, Lenni Lenape, meeting for worship, old-growth forest, Oneness, Pendle Hill, white pine
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