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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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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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Being Gathered into Community
After several years of mostly solitary and intensely inward spiritual experience, I began to worship with Quakers. At that time I dreamed I had been swimming laps in a big pool, developing strength, and now I was being put on … Continue reading
The Refiner’s Fire
The Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple… But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap…(Malachi 3:1, 2) … Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Uncategorized
Tagged Christ, conscience, convincement, fuller's soap, God, John Banks, judgment, Katharine Evans, Light of Christ, Malachi, Margaret Fell, Mary Penington, purification, Quaker, rebirth, refiner's fire, Sarah Blackborrow, Sarah Chevers, Satan, spiritual cleansing, the Light, William Smith
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Openings in our Time
I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know … Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged Being, God, Light, new creation, Oneness, openings, Quaker, Romans 8:21-22, Sandra Cronk, spiritual journey
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Openings
Part Six in a series about The Elements of the Quaker Spiritual Journey. Human beings have five senses that enable us to be aware of the physical world. We are also endowed with spiritual senses. Although children are born with … Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged a "great people", aspects of the spiritual journey, Christ, conscience, discernment, divine instruction, elements of the spiritual journey, equality, Firbank Fell, George Fox, God, heart opening, Holy Spirit, illumination, inner ear, inner eye, Isaac Penington, Jesus, Justice Gervase Benson, Light, Mary Penington, motion of love, openings, openings in scripture, Pendle Hill, Quaker, revelations, Richard Farnsworth, sword, Truth, vision, voice of God, voice of the true shepherd, William Dewsbury, Yorkshire
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Awakening Today
In an age of great change, there was world-transforming power in the early Quaker movement; in our day the need for God’s in-breaking is at least as great. People all over the planet now have been waking up to the … Continue reading
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Tagged body of Christ, Centering Prayer, collective spiritual practice, Experiment with Light, Friends, God, Hound of Heaven, Light, longing, meditation, Quaker, Quaker Quest, Religious experience, Spiritual Formation Program, Spiritual practice, the Life, turning within
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A Whole Heart 