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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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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
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
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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Turning Within
Be still, and know that I am God Psalm 46:10 Part Four in a series about The Elements of the Quaker Spiritual Journey. In my early twenties, my longing to understand the truth about life impelled me to seek. I … Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged Awakening, Children of the Light, Christ, dreams, early Friends, Elizabeth Hooton, Firbank Fell, Francis Howgill, George Fox, God, indwelling presence, Isaac Penington, Light of Christ, malaise, Martha Simmonds, Mary Penington, Puritan, Quaker, seekers, seeking, seventeenth-century, Skegby, spiritual journey, spiritual practices, turning within, Westmoreland
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Seeking
Part Three in a series about The Elements of the Quaker Spiritual Journey. A deep longing to know God’s ways and the desire to overcome sin moved those who became the first Quakers. Like many of us today, they also … Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged Anabaptist, Anglican Church, Baptist, Dissenters, early Friends, Elizabeth Hooton, Francis Howgill, God, Independents, Martha Simmonds, Puritans, Quaker, scripture, seeking, Separatists, seventeenth-century, spiritual journey, spiritual practices, William Dewsbury
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Becoming Whole-Hearted in the Midst of Division
Through study of the charismatic beginnings of Quakerism, I have received a key to the Quaker spiritual journey that can help us respond to the extraordinary demands of our time and truly become the needed agents of God’s healing we are now called … Continue reading
Prepare ye the Way
I planned to introduce here what I’ve been learning from early Friends about the Quaker spiritual journey. In the meantime, a local train accident has reminded me of a series of dreams about trains. I’ll share them with you, both to introduce something key about the … Continue reading
A Whole Heart 