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Posted on Jun. 30, 2008 | Tagged as: Conversations, News, State of Society
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, we find Meeting to [...]
Posted on Jun. 25, 2008 | Tagged as: Conversations, News, Worship
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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, [...]
Posted on May. 12, 2008 | Tagged as: Conversations
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted on Apr. 27, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, Conversations, News
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 [...]
Posted on Apr. 24, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, Conversations
At the April 11 Meeting for Worship with attention to Business, Anne Supplee and I (TCFM Clerk) were directed to acknowledge John Martinson’s letter relinquishing his ministry to TCFM’s physical home.
We sent the Martinsons the following letter:
April 17, 2008Dear John,
& Fran,
& Jonetta and Angela,
& Kate and Gillian
How important all of you are to the [...]
Posted on Apr. 14, 2008 | Tagged as: Clerk's Blog, Conversations
My name is Richard Fuller. I’m a fairly ordinary, fairly odd person, with some particular gifts (strengths) and weaknesses, just like most of the rest of us. I agreed to be Clerk of TCFM because I had a numinous / luminous sense of meaning: “this gift/challenge is specifically tailored to your situation.”
I hope, during my [...]
