We will have another meeting to acquaint Friends with Experiment With Light (EWL) on Sunday April 18, 1:15 – 3:00 PM There will likely be a second meeting in this series Sunday May 2, same time I (Richard Fuller) am announcing these times now so that people can plan for them, even though the details [...]
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EWL-3 Getting your group functioning smoothly
1. For your regular meetings, you’ll want a location free of distraction. A private home? TCFM’s “New Classroom,” or one of the classrooms in the old building, or the Grotto? 2. Your group needs to decide on what format your meetings will have. In Britain, Lois interviewed Bronwen, who had been part of an EWL [...]
Monteverde, Costa Rica: Visiting and Donating
The information below was provided by the Fjelstad-Ferguson family following their sojourn in Monteverde, Costa Rica ending last year. More information will follow. [nggallery id=3] Website and contact information for Costa Rica Study Tours, the Quaker tours started in 1984: http://www.crstudytours.com. The website provides links to their January tours, custom tours, tour photos and an [...]
EWL-1: Form Experiment with Light Groups?
Experiment with Light: How We Might Receive Guidance and Strengthen our Connections With The Invisible World By Richard Fuller BACKGROUND The most wonderful and terrifying thing George Fox said was that we can all have a direct connection with the Divine. We do not need priests or other intermediaries to give us guidance about how [...]
Marriage at Twin Cities Friends Meeting
Marriage at Twin Cities Friends Meeting (approved by Twin Cities Friends Meeting, January 8, 2010) Northern Yearly Meeting (NYM), of which Twin Cities Friends Meeting (TCFM) is a member, adopted a chapter on marriage for its book Faith and Practice in May 2008. It is presented in its entirety below. Particular concerns which have arisen [...]
Minute for Marriage Equality
Holding to our longstanding Testimonies of equality and integrity as they relate to justice for all peoples, we recognize the discomfort we feel when we provide civil marriage for straight couples but are unable to do the same for same-sex couples within the state of Minnesota. The Quaker tradition is one of Spirit-led activism on [...]
Reflections on my 17-month term as clerk
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 [...]
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 [...]
