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Is There a Quaker Personality? By Khyber I attended a workshop on using enneagrams for spiritual direction this January and it got me wondering about how personality interacts with belief and faith. The enneagram method is a scientifically tested but ancient way of looking at people through nine personality types. (Ennea is Greek for nine.)…
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Ron’s Christmas Concert, held in the First Day School room on his birthday December 14, was attended by about a dozen children. Ron writes, “We sang Christmas songs with some piano accompaniment from two of the older children, and Ron told the story of how the tradition of hanging colored lights on Christmas Trees began….
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Colorful Spices By Carol December is a festive month full of color. Even as the orange and yellow leaves of autumn are falling to the ground, we begin to think of Christmas reds and greens as we decorate our houses inside and out. The other day in worship I began to wonder about pairing our six testimonies with the six colors…
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On My Own By David C. Since my illness last fall, I have relied on others to watch over me and make sure I don’t fall, but when Quaker Earthcare Witness scheduled their fall meetings at the Quaker retreat center at Pendle Hill, I felt ready to strike out on my own. All went well….
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At the August business meeting, the Justice Working Group shared information about the American Friends Service Committee’s ThinkTwice campaign (https://afsc.org/thinktwice). AFSC’s four ThinkTwice webinars, available as recordings on the web site, explore the impact of calling the police within our diverse communities and offer practical suggestions and de-escalation skills. The campaign also invites people to…