• Steven Davision: The gospel of Jesus as an economic message

  The good news is that the gospel of Jesus is, at its very heart, an economic message. Jesus defined his role as “the Christ” in specifically economic terms.

  tags: quaker quaker.witness quaker.philadelphia

• Luis Pizarro: Sharing the Good News in Spain

  Our project to create a Quaker Christian worship group in Seville, Spain, has emerged in this complex context.

  tags: quaker quaker.europe quaker.conservative

• Rick Seifert: My Quaker elevator talk

  Quakers realize that most people don’t have a clue about Quakers. What they know often begins and ends with the guy in the funny hat on the oat meal carton.

  tags: quaker quaker.liberal quaker.outreach

• [Western Friend] Quaker Bloggers in the West

  This special issue of Western Friend focuses on lifting up the written ministry of Quaker bloggers in the West!

  tags: quaker quaker.blogs quaker.bayarea quaker.oregon quaker.seattle

• Micah Bales: Preparing for the Harvest

  In both the revivalism of the late 1800s and the New Meetings Movement of the mid-1900s, we see cases in which growth outran the capacity of seasoned ministry, eldership and oversight to care for newly convinced Friends and Meetings. As a result, the tradition was radically, decisively altered in very short periods of time…

  tags: quaker quaker.conservative quaker.liberal quaker.outreach quaker.baltimore quaker.youth

• Ashley W: Jesus and Me

  It was scary, because I knew the answers were not the “right” ones.  But they were real.

  tags: quaker quaker.christianity quaker.oregon quaker.youth

• Emerging Diane looks at a story from Woolman’s Journal

  I think his purpose from the very beginning was more than to tell a confessional story. With this tale, he establishes from the outset a theme that runs throughout the entire journal and pertains to all creation: Once you or I start doing even one evil thing, we create a chain reaction. It’s never just one thing, period.

  tags: quaker quaker.witness

• LizOpp: Taking up the Cross

  Taking up the Cross means choosing to be obedient to the will of God, to be willing to sacrifice at a time when we greatly and intensely don’t wish to.

  tags: quaker quaker.uppermidwest quaker.christianity quaker.conservative

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