Category: Spiritual Practice
Ideas and thoughts inspired by a wide range of spiritual practice, especially how they connect to our work in the world.
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Quaker A-Z: T is for Together
Being Surprised I love Yearly Meeting and go whenever it is possible. I find that it is part of the foundation of my grounding and rootedness in British Quakerism. It helps me to reconnect to the community as a much wider group. I see and am together with my regular Meetings for Worship (online and
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Slices of Power
Swarthmore Lecture 2024 I was inspired and challenged by Ben Jarman’s lecture at Yearly Meeting a couple of months ago. You can watch all of it on YouTube – linked below. The idea I was most challenged by was the idea of ‘slices of power’, which Ben introduced about an hour into the lecture where
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Membership
Membership is a tricky word Quakers talk about Membership (note the capital M) and mean someone who has formally been recorded as a member of a specific Area Meeting. But in this post, I’m thinking about what helps us feel that we belong to a worshiping community – whether or not we’ve been formally recorded.
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AdventWord 2023: Truth
“Stick with the truth, it’s easier to remember.” Has anyone ever told you that? I find the claim fascinating. I think it’s the psychopathy; we Cluster B folks seem to lack a certain mental “friction” that other neurotypes have when it comes to fabrication. Which does make me a fluid storyteller, a talent I’ve been
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AdventWord 2023: Glory
Photo by Cristian Palmer on Unsplash Living out our Testimonies As a Religious Society of Friends we see the … environmental crisis is at root a spiritual and religious crisis; we are called to look again at the real purpose of being on this earth, which is to till it and keep it so as
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for You!
You being a finite resource So often when I meet with a new or prospective client they start by explaining how hard they are working and yet they’re still not managing to do xxxxx. I like to remind them that they should consider rest as productive and feel capable of telling their appointing body that
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AdventWord 2023: Grace
What is Grace? Grace is such an unassuming word – comes from the Latin grātia and has interesting definitions… Grace – unearned favour from someone, often more powerful (human or divine!) Grace – can be unearned favour from and to yourself – accepting that you are human and imperfect. Grace – a title given to
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Quaker A-Z: W is for Worship
Foundation not garnish… Quakers hold and make decisions at their Business Meetings – more formally called ‘Meetings for Worship for Business’, sometimes called ‘Meetings for Worship with a concern for Business’. But whatever you call it is the foundation not a garnish or decoration like the flowers on the clerks’ table above. Every business meeting begins
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Silence and Spirit-led
Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash S is for silence Which is oh so very useful. and S is for Spirit-led Essential in a Meeting for Worship, Meeting for Worship for Business, or a Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business… Actually, any sort of meeting would benefit from both of those things. As
