Exploration, with open discussion, of the book Traditional Quaker Christianity (by Terry Wallace, Jack Smith, Susan Smith & Arthur Berk). A description of Friends faith and practices based on experience in Ohio Yearly Meeting. (Book can be found to purchase new or used online, or an online version can be found on Daniel Rowan’s blog or on ... Read more
Exploration, with open discussion, of the book Traditional Quaker Christianity (by Terry Wallace, Jack Smith, Susan Smith & Arthur Berk). A description of Friends faith and practices based on experience in Ohio Yearly Meeting. (Book can be found to purchase new or used online, or an online version can be found on Daniel Rowan’s blog or on ... Read more
What might be keeping us from fully experiencing new life in Christ? When Jesus proclaims that “the Kingdom of Heaven is within us” and invites us to “be born again,” he is inviting us out of brokenness into wholeness, out of our weakness and fearfulness into His power to transform us and to be embraced ... Read more
The gospel of Christ calls us, again and again, to reawaken from our social loneliness and fragmentation and return to our original family, and our original, Life-giving parent, whom John, in his New Testament letter, names as Love (1 John 4:7-10). The Lord’s prayer, beginning with “Our Father” (Matthew 6:9, Luke 11:2), which Jesus gave us as ... Read more
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. ... Read more
Ecclesiastes 3: "There is a time for everything … a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance …" The Bible speaks eloquently to the idea that grief and mourning are a part of life, and captures beautifully the cyclical nature of our experience, the wedding ... Read more
