Richard Fuller reflects on his developing understanding of the Meeting community and offers “his take” on our Meetings for Worship with Attention to Business. He hopes to inspire others to join in Quaker-style shared leadership.
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Posted on Aug. 09, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, News
8/8/08, lightly revised 8/13
As Friends who heard the Trustees report at the July 25 MWB know, investigation following the sprinkler break now reveals that the “new” part of the TCFM Meetinghouse is “sick.” This is a semi-technical term, meaning that inside the building’s walls there exist conditions that make using parts of the building hazardous [...]
Posted on Jul. 23, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, News
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 questions a meeting community faces:
What are [...]
Posted on Jul. 13, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, News
In my mailbox I receive many things. Here are some that might interest others.
* We got a thank-you letter from Lili Herbert, Director of Friends School Minnesota “for your ongoing support & your recent, generous donation…”
* Friends World News, a 16-page newsletter from Friends World Committee for Consultation. The lead article is on the crisis [...]
Posted on Jun. 26, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog
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:
“I believe I [...]
Posted on May. 16, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, Conversations
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 “community”—which, [...]
Posted on May. 03, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, Events, News
Like many of us, your new clerks, Richard Fuller and Anne Supplee , see the “spiritual world” as an important part of life, even though it’s invisible and even though everyone perceives it in their own way. We also feel that TCFM is a vibrant spiritual community with many synchronicities and influences (that some would [...]
Posted on Apr. 29, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, Conversations
As Clerk of Meeting, I received a communication from Miriam Larson, a Macalester student who works with the Experimental Colleges in the Twin Cities.
I have long thought there was great potential in an expanded relationship between our Meeting and the Macalester student body, probably because my own first regular contact with Quakers came as [...]
Posted on Apr. 27, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, Conversations, News
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 [...]
