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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: Radical Christianity
Listen to Your Children Praying
My experience at Tribe 1’s anniversary concert helped me recognize that I needed to attend the special January 10th “called meeting” of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting to address racism. Continue reading
Entering into Transformation
Spiritual transformation begins in the daily circumstances of seemingly-ordinary lives. At the same time, God also invites us to stretch beyond the comfortable circumference within which many of us live, to serve the needs of those beyond our immediate circles. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today, Radical Christianity
Tagged 1947 Freedom Riders, Bayard Rustin, George Willoughby, life centered in God, Lillian Wiloughby, New Birth, nonviolence, radical faithfulness, signs of transformation, spiritual transformation, The Golden Rule, war resisters
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Evolving Faith
At a gathering for people who nurture the spiritual lives of others, many of us present were uncomfortable with James Mulholland’s suggestion that agnosticism (or atheism) is a more mature spiritual stance than faith in God. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today, Radical Christianity
Tagged agnotics, athiest, concepts of God, direct experience, evolving faith, James Mulholland, leaving the church, mature faith, nurturing faith, Philip Gulley, QPCC, Quakers in Pastoral Care and Counseling, spiritual reality, wrestling with faith
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Where Christ Meets Us
Being part of a faith community has always been essential grounding for the faithful life, and the prophetic life. Continue reading
A Whole Heart 