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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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Tag Archives: Light of Christ
Spiritual Ancestors
For years I did reading and research about the English Puritan and Quaker settlers to New England in the 1600s. I learned about the Puritan context, Anabaptist influence, theological ferment, and social unrest out of which Quakerism emerged, and I … Continue reading
A Healing Meditation
During my morning time of prayer and meditation, while listening for guidance, it came to me to make a recording of the guided meditation/prayer that I offered during some online workshops in 2020. It begins with attention to the body, … Continue reading
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
Shifting to the Heart
“Meeting for worship is a Quaker technology for shifting levels of consciousness,” Bill Taber sometimes explained. Descriptions of gathered worship reveal that the divine Presence is revealed when the mind is still, and this opens the heart.
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Posted in Contemplative spirituality, Learning from Early Friends, Mysticism, Quaker Faith Today, Radical Christianity
Tagged Bill Taber, contemplation, Divine presence, early Friends, Eternal Stream, Francis Howgill, gathered meeting, George Fox, God, heart opening, hearts on fire, Holy Spirit, inward Light, Isaac Penington, Kingdom of Heaven, Light of Christ, meeting for worship, Pendle Hill, silence, spiritual power, waiting upon God
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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
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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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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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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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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A Whole Heart 