QUIP Annual Meeting Plenary Series
From My Heart to Yours: Sharing a Faith That Heals
Join us Saturday, May 9, 2020, noon, New York time
for Marcelle Martin’s interactive webinar.
The Quakers United in Publications (QUIP) Annual Conference at Quaker Hill Conference Center was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 virus. Our three plenary speakers agreed to share their messages on the ministry of the written word in a series of zoom conference calls. Marcelle Martin will speak on May 9. Tom Hamm will talk on May 23 and Ashley Wilcox on June 6. The talks will be recorded and the links posted on the QUIP website.
For Zoom link, email clerks@quakerquip.com.
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From My Heart to Yours: Sharing a Faith That Heals
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In this online talk, Marcelle Martin will speak about the call to write about faith in a way that reaches to the hearts of others. In her twenties, while in an M.F.A. program in Creative Writing, she learned to guard her heart from criticism. But her constricted inner life called out for healing and led her on a search for deeper truth. With the help of writing practices, she woke up to spiritual dimensions previously unsuspected, and discovered the path toward wholeness and healing. In this talk she describes the call to help evoke a healing faith in others, through the stories of early Friends and other faithful people as well as by offering accounts of her own explorations and spiritual journey. This webinar will provide a short opportunity for practice. Come with paper and something to write with.
Marcelle Martin, author of Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, has led workshops at retreat centers and Quaker meetings across the United States. She was the resident Quaker Studies teacher at Pendle Hill for four years and is a core teacher for the 9-month program, “Nurturing Faithfulness.” In her twenties she obtained an M.F.A. in fiction writing and wrote an unpublished novel. Later she discovered her call is to write about the spiritual journey. Her new book is A Guide to Faithfulness Groups. She has also written about faith in three Pendle Hill pamphlets and many articles. On her blog, A Whole Heart (awholeheart.com), she shares inspiration to help us be all God has created us to be. A member of Swarthmore Meeting, she lives in Chester, PA with her husband, Terry Hauger.
Her latest blog post is The Power of Healing Prayer at www.awholeheart.com
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