Prepare ye the Way
I planned to introduce here what I’ve been learning from early Friends about the Quaker spiritual journey. In the meantime, a local train accident has reminded me of a series of dreams about trains....
View ArticleSeeking
Part Three in a series about The Elements of the Quaker Spiritual Journey. A deep longing to know God’s ways and the desire to overcome sin moved those who became the first Quakers. Like many of us...
View ArticleTurning Within
Be still, and know that I am God Psalm 46:10 Part Four in a series about The Elements of the Quaker Spiritual Journey. In my early twenties, my longing to understand the truth about life impelled me to...
View ArticleBeing Gathered into Community
After several years of mostly solitary and intensely inward spiritual experience, I began to worship with Quakers. At that time I dreamed I had been swimming laps in a big pool, developing strength,...
View ArticleThe New Birth
For the first Quakers, convincement was about much more than accepting new beliefs. Even a powerful experience of the Light of Christ within was only the beginning. Then they learned how to allow...
View ArticleShifting to the Heart
"Meeting for worship is a Quaker technology for shifting levels of consciousness," Bill Taber sometimes explained. Descriptions of gathered worship reveal that the divine Presence is revealed when the...
View ArticleOne With God And Each Other
In preparation for an online conversation and exploration of how we can be more receptive to the gathered meeting, I’ve been reading everything I can get my hands on that’s been written about the...
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