Dear Patricia, Thank you for your interest in our Meeting. (Have we met? I don’t remember you.) In your comment on my “Q-horn” post, you write, Do I misunderstand your message? Yes you do. Thank you for the opportunity to try again. In the July 2008 Friends Journal, Arlene Kelly asks some of the big [...]
About Richard Fuller
The Q-Horn: An Aid To Speaking Passionately Without Frightening One Another Too Much?
At our last Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business I introduced the “Q-horn.” I suggested how it might be used. After some uncertainty, people began trying it out, using it in the spirit I had suggested, and then expanding and improving on my suggestions. What people seem to have taken the Q-horn to signify: [...]
Parker Palmer on Leadership
Last Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business I read a passage out of the opening silence. Here it is: Unfortunately, our idea of leadership has been deformed by a myth that links leadership to hierarchy, as if leaders were needed only in systems that operate from the top down. But when we are in [...]
Your Clerk will play the Fool
Over the years I have had to come to terms with a certain impish energy that I have found living in me. It was not my idea, I wanted to grow up into a big tough guy. In coming to terms with this energy as a young adult I accepted that I was playing the [...]
Thank You John, & all the Family
At the April 11 Meeting for Worship with attention to Business, Anne Supplee and I (TCFM Clerk) were directed to acknowledge John Martinson’s letter relinquishing his ministry to TCFM’s physical home. We sent the Martinsons the following letter: April 17, 2008Dear John, & Fran, & Jonetta and Angela, & Kate and Gillian How important all [...]
