Dear Editor: I write regarding the article “Place of Privilege” by Ann Clendenin in the May/June 2022 issue of Western Friend.
Our meetings for worship are in effect Holy Ground. A weekly gathering at once sublime and simple. Physical and spiritual terrains co-mingle. Become seamless. Limitless. Even eternal.
[The following article was abridged from a version published online at: https://westernfriend.org/place-privilege-unabridged]
I didn’t want to join the committee. As a “released Friend,” my role is to follow the leadings of my music ministry out in the world, freed from responsibility for the business of Multnomah Monthly Meeting. But I have found myself reckoning lately with a firehose of Spirit blasting a message through me that has nothing to do with songs or cello.
The Ministry and Oversight Committee of Chico Friends Meeting brings us the thrills and chills of deciding how to worship in 2021; includes a great list of resources.
Reflections on the potential for technology to interfere with Friends' corporate worship.
Anna Fritz is a member of Multnomah Friends Meeting in Portland, OR (NPYM).
A resouce list for Blended or Hybrid Worship, produced for a workshop conducted by New York Yearly Meeting in July 2021, .
