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Entries from July 2008

PYM, Days Three and Four

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

[Your corresponding editor participated in the Young Friends- Junior Yearly Meeting's "Responsible Relationships" conversation last night, which ran into the wee hours and prevented coherent blogging from occurring yesterday--hence the compound post.]
Soaring columns of turkey vultures arcing into a cloudless sky. The plenary tent made a living, breathing animal by the rush of wind, pushing [...]

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PYM, Day Two

July 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A small group of Friends began the day with a lively pre-breakfast discussion of Margaret Fell and early Friends. Following breakfast, Friends settled into corporate worship, with the youth programs joining in for the first fifteen minutes. After a short break, Friends reconvened in worship groups to consider a bevy of queries concerning community and [...]

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From the Editor
- Looking Ahead to 2009
  Got a story idea, photos, or a hankering to write? Know someone whose thoughts on one of these topics you would really like to hear? Drop me a line! Story ideas do not need to line up with the themes– it’s just a nice perk.
  January/February: Meetinghouses
  -Some meetings own them and love them, some [...]
Minutes
- NPYM's Minute on the War on Drugs
  Approved July, 2008, at North Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Annual Session in Corvallis, OR.
  As an expression of our belief in nonviolence and the value of each person, Friends have throughout our history sought compassionate and effective answers to social problems.
  One of the most problematic federal policies for decades has been the federal government’s failed War on [...]
Annual Session News
- NPYM's Minute on the War on Drugs
  Approved July, 2008, at North Pacific Yearly Meeting’s Annual Session in Corvallis, OR.
  As an expression of our belief in nonviolence and the value of each person, Friends have throughout our history sought compassionate and effective answers to social problems.
  One of the most problematic federal policies for decades has been the federal government’s failed War on [...]
From the Archives
- Membership?
  The theme for this weekend’s gathering of Willamette Quarterly Meeting (North Pacific YM) focused on “The Future of Friends.” One of the topics that surfaced along the way was membership, and so this seemed a timely reprint.
  by Marjorie Sykes, Pacific Yearly Meeting (though living in India at the time)
  March, 1975
  A lot of people have been [...]