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A message shared in meeting for worship on 08/20 referred to the song Turn! Turn! Turn!, written by Pete Seeger and based on a passage from Ecclesiastes. The song was recorded by the Byrds in 1965, and so it provided a powerful connection also to the day's Meeting for Learning, which featured David C's personal stories from the years 1961 through 1971.

Ecclesiastes 3

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

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At the 8/14 meeting for business and meeting for worship, the clerk read excerpts of news coverage about Courtney Ross's death in police custody. Then he read a passage from Matthew:

[37] Then the righteous will answer him, `Lord, when did we see thee hungry and feed thee, or thirsty and give thee drink?

[38] And when did we see thee a stranger and welcome thee, or naked and clothe thee? 

[39] And when did we see thee sick or in prison and visit thee? 

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The opening message shared in meeting for worship on 7/9 was from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself:

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least,
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

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The passage shared by Co-Clerk Kelly on the Father's Day meeting for worship was from Margaret Fell, sometimes referred to as "the Mother of Quakerism":

God hath put no such difference between the Male and Female as man would make.

Kelly's query was something along these lines: How do we learn from the wisdom of historical Quakers without revering them inappropriately?

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The passage used to open the June business meeting was from Basics of Conducting a Quaker Business Meeting:

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The passage shared at the 6/4 meeting for worship was from Psalms 91:1:

Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

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