Notes from Feb. 13, 2010 Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business Notes from May 9, 2010 Adult Education Peace Testimony – approved chapter from upcoming Faith and Practice Add your comments to the conversation February 13, 2010 – Meeting for Worship for Business – Nominating Meeting Worship Sharing Regarding our two dormant committees – [...]
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Plan For Meeting For Worship In The Homes Of Friends On Sun May 17
PLAN FOR MEETING FOR WORSHIP IN THE HOMES OF FRIENDS ON SUN MAY 17 As most everyone now knows, Meeting Worship for the next few months cannot occur at TCFM due to building reconstruction. On May 17 and June 14, TCFM will also not be able to meet at the Friends School of Minnesota as [...]
TCFM Scholarships for Friends Activities – 2009
Funds can be requested for involvement in Friends activities such as Northern Yearly Meeting, Friends General Conference, Pendle Hill, the NYM Spiritual Nurture program, and travel for friends concerns, such as representation on Friends committees. Please adhere to these deadlines: Make requests for scholarships to Northern Yearly Meeting or Friends General Conference by priority deadline [...]
The Right of Peaceful Assembly
Questions arising in my mind in response to recent postings and recent testimony in Meeting for Worship: Does the Republican Party have a right to peaceful assembly? Does that include deciding who may sit and speak in the meeting? Does that include free access of participants to the assembly without threat of violence or insult? [...]
State of the Society Report to Northern Yearly Meeting, May 2008
Twin Cities Friends Meeting State of the Society Report, May 2008 to Northern Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends -The Cloud of Unknowing, 14th c. Surveying the various reports on the state of society submitted by Ministry and Counsel, Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business and the First Day School Committee, [...]
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 [...]
A Friend’s thoughts about economic stimulus checks
By Aimee McAdams So, I’ve been thinking… I’ve been carrying a concern for a number of months now. I read in the news awhile back that a recession is expected and the economy isn’t doing well, so the government has decided to send out “economic stimulus” checks to most Americans. As the discussion was taking [...]
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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