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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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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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The New Birth
The ten elements of the Quaker spiritual journey which I have been describing in this blog are all elements of that process of spiritual rebirth which the first Quakers courageously witnessed not only in their preaching and writing, but more importantly, in their transformed and transforming lives. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged Book of Life, born again, Christianity, early Friends, Francis Howgill, George Fox, God, Jesus, Light of Christ, Mary Fisher, New Birth, Quaker, Quakerism, regeneration, salvation, spiritual journey, spiritual rebirth, traveling ministers, William Dewsbury
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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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Perfection (in One’s Measure)
The first Quakers did not want to postpone perfect faithfulness until after death. They sought a surrendered life, a life in union with God. They experienced the Spirit of Christ within them, teaching them, step by step, how to become perfectly responsive to God’s will and free from the compulsion to sin. In doing so, they became joined with the Fountain of Love. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged Christ, Christian perfection, faithfulness, freedom from sin, George Fox, God, Isaac Penington, James Nayler, Matthew 5:48, perfection, purification, Quaker, Rebecca Travers, refiner's fire, Sarah Chevers, state of perfection, the Light, union with God
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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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Living in the Cross
Following the leadings of the Light ultimately brings joy and many other spiritual blessings, but early Quakers referred to following God’s promptings as living in “the cross.” The power they found in practicing their faith came from surrendering their own wills to the Love and Truth and Power of God, to the inward guidance of Christ. <a href="”> Read More…
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Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged Christ, Devil, God, God's will, Isaac Penington, leadings, Light of Christ, lusts, Margaret Fell, obedience, persecution, Power of God, Quaker, self-will, the cross, the cross of Christ
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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
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
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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Gathered Into Community Today, part 2
One Friend asked: “In addition to worship, do you have any information about the hard-and-fast ways that early Friends “gathered into community”? Did they have Friendly Eights or a potluck? Did they meet to hear about the newest project of … Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
Tagged Canadian Friends Service Committee, Christ, Chuck Fager, community, Elizabeth Ann Blackshine, Fit for Freedom, Friends, gathered into community, God, John 15:5, Not for Friendship, Peace Bridge, Pendle Hill, peoplehood, Quaker, Quaker Theology, racism
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Gathered into Community Today
I’ve been thinking about how God gathers us today and pondering the experiences and questions sent by a few readers. A few days ago at West Richmond Meeting (in Indiana), I heard two different Quaker meetings share stories of faithful … Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
Tagged Adelphi Friends Meeting, Book of Discipline, community, corporate body, faith in action, gay, God, God's Love, Indiana Yearly Meeting, leadings, lesbian, same-sex marriage, welcoming and affirming, West Richmond Friends Meeting, witness, Yearly Meeting
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A Whole Heart 