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? [...]
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 [...]
Your Clerk will play the Fool
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 [...]
Particularity and The Poison Tree
By Tom Clinton-McCausland There is a parable which I learned from the Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield about a poison tree. It goes something like this: Near a village there is a poison tree. The poison is very potent, and it deeply wounds the hearts and spirits of all who ingest it.One day, someone from the [...]
