Coloring Page: Swords into Ploughshares
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Dear Friends: Almost anything can serve as a weapon, even life-giving water. All living creatures on earth have evolved (are evolving) fortifications against attack. Cellular life is fortified by membranes, and human societies are fortified by lines in the sand. Nutrients and attractive ideas gain access through those fortifications. Poisons and slander are rebuffed.
Notes from a conversation among Friends in the West, 11/8/2018, concerning Friendss efforts to create useful directories of members, committees, etc. in their Quaker yearly meetings.
Video recording of a presentation by Nora J.
Notes from a conversation among Friends in the West and beyond, October 11, 2018, concerning Friends’ experiences with a wide range of religious beliefs within their Quaker meetings.
Recording of a conversation among Friends in the West and beyond, October 11, 2018, concerning Friends’ experiences with a wide range of religious beliefs within their Quaker meetings.
Dear Friends: Our bodies cannot live outside of history, nor can we live outside of history’s cruelty, its “mixing memory and desire.” Rowing our boats with our backs towards the future, we despair at the carnage we watch flowing out from our wakes – oceans choked by our poisons, lives crushed by our bigotry, truth and kindness twisted by our greed. Some bits of beauty bob along, too.
