Wealth and Witness
by Bill Graustein My present understanding of wealth and of the Light emerges from a combination of example and on the job training. I am a member of New Haven Meeting and my principal work in the world is to serve as trustee of a charitable foundation that seeks to improve elementary and preschool education…
Thrifty and Rich: Quaker Paradox
by Diane Pasta I do not have an extravagant lifestyle. Nevertheless, I must be rich, since I own a home. Yet, owning a home seems to make me poor! I alternate between feeling stressed by my apparently inadequate income and blessed by the wealth that is mine. I am striving to engage in both perspectives…
Money as Sacred
by Nadine Hoover Between a Christian distrust of wealth and witnessing massive, commercial greed, it is no wonder we react to money in emotional and dissonant ways. Matthew 19:24 says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of…
Racial Assumptions
Joan Broadfield When we hear the word ‘racism,’ many people think of a perpetrator and a victim. The focus of the reaction seems most to acknowledge a black victim, a white perpetrator. In common parlance, the idea of broad effect is not immediately understood. Indeed, for us who are ‘white’ it is easy to avoid…
Reflection: QUIP Annual Meeting 1999
by Lucy Duncan The 1999 annual meeting of Quakers Uniting in Publications, held at Charney Manor April 22nd-25th, was spiritually and professionally refreshing. I found QUIP to be a remarkable model of Quaker process and collegial fellowship. From discussions of how to distribute the fund set aside to support publishing endeavors to colloquia on nurturing…
My Trip to the Nurturing the Nurturers Conference
By Jacob Stewart Wednesday, March 10, 1999Dear Journal Me and my mom are on the road to go to South Carolina. I’m really sad cause my best friend Nick Mann decided to stay home with his dad instead of coming on this trip with me. I’m REALLY excited about being on an island. I’ve never…
Reweaving Spiritual Connections
Deborah Fisch In the last six months I have visited several meetings within Friends General Conference. There is a great desire among Friends to feel more spiritually connected, to know what issues other meetings are laboring with and how they go about discerning what they as Friends are called to do. Our foremothers and fathers…
Our Role as Individuals in America’s (U.S.) Racial History: Atlanta Meeting Looks at Racism
Bert Skellie & Adelaide Solomon-Jordan Southern Appalachian Yearly Meeting and Association Atlanta Friends Meeting began a discussion group on the topic, “Our Role as Individuals in America’s (U.S.) Racial History,” in November 1997. Through discussions of readings, videos and other personal sharing, we have sought to understand our part in racial history and to support…
Nurturing People of Color
Interview with Anita Mendes-Lopes by Marsha Holliday My workshop will address racism from a different point of view. People of Color too often accept for ourselves the position that society has handed to us. We accept and swallow racism. I work with the swallowing part. So often People of Color see that if we speak…
Racism Hurts and Challenges Everyone
Challenging Racism This resource is an article by Vanessa Julye Files Racism Hurts and Challenges EveryoneDownload…
Traveling Ministries: A New Program for FGC!
Deborah Fisch TRAVELING MINISTRIES PROGRAM COORDINATOR When I read the job announcement for coordinator of the new Friends General Conference Traveling Ministries Program last winter, I felt a wave of excitement flow through my heart. I had a leading that I should apply for the position and be prepared to support and become involved with…
Friends General Conference Publication Connects with Russian Youth
Janet N. Riley MEMBER: CENTRAL PHILADELPHIA MONTHLY MEETINGATTENDER: ATASCADERO, CALIFORNIA WORSHIP GROUP In 1993 I lived in Novgorod, Russia, a charming town dotted with ancient Russian Orthodox churches on either side of the Volkov River. Working under the care of my meeting, I held English conversation classes with two groups of Russian youth in the…