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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
In Order to Give Our Gift
I pray that we Friends grow increasingly able, faithfully, to play our part in the birth of a new, more conscious, connected humanity, a birth now reaching a painful stage of labor. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
Tagged catastrophe, dream, extinction, faithfulness, God, God's plan, liberal Friends, prayer, shift of consciousness, vision
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Quakers and the Light
A delightful short YouTube video in the QuakerSpeak series shows nine contemporary Friends describing the Light and how they have experienced it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0SLPW0JHsU
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Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
Tagged holding in the Light, John 1:9, Light of Christ, Quakers, the Light
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Today is the World’s Birthday!
Since waking this morning, a phrase comes repeatedly into my mind: “Today is the World’s Birthday.” Continue reading
The Big Question
While being interviewed on video, I was asked the BIG QUESTION: “What is God calling us to today?” Continue reading
A Whole Year of A Whole Heart
May the Spirit of Christ be born within and among us again in power, in this time.
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Complete, United With God’s Love
Perfection as complete union with God’s love is not an element of the journey so much as a state toward which we are moving, a condition toward which God is drawing us, day by day. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
Tagged Abraham Maslow, compassionate, complete, Friends, goal, God, Jesus, love, Matthew 5:48, oiktirmon, perfect love, Quaker, spiritual journey, telios, united with God, wholeness
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Now Abiding in Divine Love and Power
As we grow in faith, we learn to look for God and rely on God in every circumstance; we learn to abide in divine love and power. Continue reading
Surrendering Our Selves to God
“Come join me on the cross,” Jesus seemed to say. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
Tagged Christ, cross to the will, crucifixion, Friends, Gerald Hewiston, God, going to the cross, Jesus, leadings, living in the cross, Peaceable Kingdom, Quaker, resurrection, Steven Davison, suffering, surrender, Swarthmoor lecture 2013
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Following Leadings Today
As many as are led by the Spirit of God, are the sons of God. Romans 8:14 In the late 1980s, young urban professionals Scott and Mary Ann Savage experienced an unexpected call. In the midst of a booming material culture, … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Appalachia, call, Chestnut Hill Meeting, clearness committee, climate change, climate justice, concern, Conservative Friends, discernment, Eileen Flanagan, God, Keystone KL pipeline, leading, mountantop removal, oversight committee, peer groups, Quaker, Scott Savage, simple living, Spirit, testimonies, witness
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A Whole Heart 