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. [...]
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Eat Watermelon, Meet Mike, Before MWB, 9/12
Meet and greet Mike Cregan in the half-hour before MWB. Join us Friday, September 12, from 6:30-7 for watermelon and conversation with Mike and others. Mike has been serving in a semi-contractor role as Friends explore reconstruction of our building. Come meet him and find out what brought him to TCFM and other gifts he [...]
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 [...]
Clerk’s mail, 7/13/08
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 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 [...]
Explaining the “Meet the Parts of Meeting Party,” 5/9, 6:30PM
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 [...]
EXCO- the Twin Cities Experimental College
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 [...]
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