Clerk's Blog
Our clerk as of September, 2009:
Paul Landskroener
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TCFM’s Service, As A Community, To Others
Posted on Oct. 08, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog
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. Whether you [...]
Eat Watermelon, Meet Mike, Before MWB, 9/12
Posted on Sep. 06, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog
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 brings to [...]
Response to a Q-horn comment
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 [...]
Clerk’s mail, 7/13/08
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 [...]
The Q-Horn: An Aid To Speaking Passionately Without Frightening One Another Too Much?
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 [...]
Parker Palmer on Leadership
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, [...]
Explaining the “Meet the Parts of Meeting Party,” 5/9, 6:30PM
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 [...]
EXCO- the Twin Cities Experimental College
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 [...]
