by Richard Fuller Wow! What a ride! My assistant clerk, Anne Supplee, and I celebrated out last day on the job on August 31. We had a running query through our term which I believe we repeated to each other monthly: “Are we (still) having fun?” The shared answer has always been “yes!” And it [...]
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Time To Shake The Piggy Bank For A Good Finish To Our Construction
Friends, we need some more money to bring our building construction to a good conclusion. “How much more money?” That’s a chicken and egg question. The construction which is being supervised by MOMSAH continues to go well, and the end is mid-October, the date promised by Whole Builders all along. The TCFM “Design Team” and [...]
Summary of Friend IN Residence vs. Friend OUT OF Residence Meeting
Summary of the 2-22-09 discussion about the importance of having a FiR living in the TCFM Meetinghouse Most of the 22 attenders at the meeting expressed a clear preference, and all who did said they would like to see a Friend in Residence (FiR) living in the building. All those not present who sent their [...]
Urge Obama to ban torture?
Declaration of Principles for a Presidential Executive Order On Prisoner Treatment, Torture and Cruelty Raquel Wood has sent a letter to TCFM and other Friends meetings. It includes the declaration, below, with the following cover note. For Twin Cities Friends Meeting January 7, 2009 At the Monthly Meeting for Business on last Sunday evening, January [...]
TCFM’s Service, As A Community, To Others
Should we be worried that TCFM’s Peace and Social Action Committee (PSAC) and Community Service Committee (CSC) have been inactive for over a year? Some of our members who are deeply grounded in the religious traditions of western civilization are worried. They say (as best I understand them) “We are all connected to one another. [...]
Response to a Q-horn comment
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 [...]
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 [...]
