Quaker Voluntary Service
May 23, 2012
FGC staff are excited about this new Quaker initiative and wanted to be sure you heard about it.
An Interview with Barry Crossno
February 2, 2011
Barry is the new General Secretary of Friends General Conference. He was interviewed by Chris Pifer, Web and Online Communications Manager for FGC.
FGC Central Committee Minute Affirming LGBTQ Friends
November 1, 2004
Our experience has been that spiritual gifts are not distributed with regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.
FGC Publications & Distribution: A Short History
May 9, 2001
By Wesley Mason Well, wasn’t there always a Publications and Distribution (P&D;) program? No, like everything else we had a beginning. While FGC always produced publications of some type, the genesis of the current Publications and Distribution Program seems to have been in 1972 when FGC first formed a Religious Education (RE) Committee. Previously, written…
Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History
March 3, 2001
Reviewed by Nils Pearson Culture of Peace: The Hidden Side of History, by Elise Boulding, published by Syracuse University Press, 2000 A scholarly and compelling book, this is no easy read. However, if you think that there is too much militarism, violence and war, too many people in prison and too many fast food restaurants; if…
Right Sharing-Right in Our Homes
March 3, 2001
By Pamela Haines For one lunch at the FGC Gathering, we were served rice and beans. The beans were gone when I went through the line so I got rice with bean juice. At each table there was information about Right Sharing of the World’s Resources, to which FGC donated the savings from that meal….
A Source of Contagious Amazement: The Directory of Traveling Friends
February 23, 2001
By Katrina Mason Editor’s note: The Directory of Traveling Friends is referred to interchangeable as the Traveling Directory and the Directory. Recently a thick letter came in the mail from a woman who, using the Directory of Traveling Friends, had stayed with us about two years ago. In the envelope was a photograph of flowers taken…
Publications & Distribution: Past, Present and Future
February 23, 2001
By Pat Fox The Publications and Distribution Committee came together for a weekend retreat February 19-21, 2001. We gathered at the Burlington Meetinghouse and Conference Center to finish our business plan, one that the committee worked on for the past year and would use for the next several years. Our working documents reflected aspects of…
Silent Worship and Quaker Values
June 1, 2000
By Marsha D. Holliday, Friends General Conference, 2000. If you have never before attended an unprogrammed Friends (Quaker) meeting for worship, your first meeting may surprise you. While all Quakers meet in worship to hear more clearly God’s “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12), Friends in the unprogrammed Quaker tradition base our worship entirely on…
Alphabet of Ministries
March 20, 2000
By Sally Rickerman My offering is this alphabet of ministries–some frivolous, but most profound. AcceptanceBeingCaringDoingElderingForgivingGraciousnessHealingInsightfulnessJoyKnittingListeningMindfulnessNurturingOutreachingPrayingQuakeringReconcilingSingingThoughtfulnessUnderstandingVocalizingWritingXtending“Youngering”Zeal
A Personal Odyssey Toward Traveling in the Ministry
March 20, 2000
By Barry Zalph, Louisville MM, Ohio Valley YM Five years ago, no one could have convinced me that I should “travel in the ministry.” As I understood it, traveling ministers had an extraordinary sense of the Divine presence and an undeniable leading to carry their witness to others. Neither of these descriptions fit me at…