Tag Archives | conversations

A Conversation Regarding Two Dormant Committees: Peace and Social Action, and Community Service

Posted by on May 31, 2010 in Committees, Conversations, Peace, Service

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 – [...]

Plan For Meeting For Worship In The Homes Of Friends On Sun May 17

Posted by on May 12, 2009 in Conversations, News

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

Posted by on May 4, 2009 in Business, Conversations, Jubilation

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

Posted by on October 28, 2008 in Conversations

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

Posted by on May 16, 2008 in 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 [...]

A Friend’s thoughts about economic stimulus checks

Posted by on May 12, 2008 in 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 taking [...]

Your Clerk will play the Fool

Posted by on April 27, 2008 in Clerk's Blog, Conversations

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 [...]

Thank You John, & all the Family

Posted by on April 24, 2008 in Clerk's Blog

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 [...]