By Joann Neuroth While missing the vitality of past face-to-face events, the School of the Spirit board feels Spirit’s wind under our wings in many ways: Prayerful listening continues to affirm the expanded call to ministry that came to us last year, and we have increased clarity about the clusters of work that might entail. …
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by Mary Linda McKinney All of the hard, heartbreaking things of this catastrophic pandemic aside, the shift online has been really good for me as a minister and doer-of-things. I’ve been able to attend, create, facilitate, learn, clerk, host, nurture, hold space, tech, and experience many, many events that I would never be able to …
Chris Hall Interviewed by Joann Neuroth Jay Marshall, former Dean of Earlham School of Religion, defines Ministry as “lived faith intentionally exercised toward others.” Christine Hall believes each one of us is suited for particular kinds of “lived faith” by our gifts, capacities, and relationship with the Holy. She finds that when we are faithful …
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By Mary Linda McKinney Coddiwomple: “To travel purposefully in a yet unknown destination.” When using a map, you know where you’re heading and you can plan your route. Although the purpose is the same – to get from where you are to where you’re going – a GPS is a very different tool. With a …
By Mary Linda McKinney Some Friends shy away from the word “elder”. They associate it with finger-wagging rule enforcers who perform what is humorously called “drive-by eldering” which equates often to upholding out-dated cultural norms. If you’ve seen the movie “Friendly Persuasion”, you’ll recognize this kind of false eldering from the scene where members …
June 2021 – The Team of Elders Behind Faithful Meetings Read More »
Ashley Wilcox, an alum of the 8th On Being a Spiritual Nurturer class, has been following a call to preach for some time now. It has led her to travel in ministry, start a church led by women preachers and, most recently, write a lectionary focused on passages on women in the Bible. School of …
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By Mary Linda McKinney Faithful Meetings program is grounded in the belief that spiritual deepening should, and can, begin at home. Through Faithful Meetings, Friends meetings and churches will be provided opportunities to build spiritual and emotional bonds between members, learn about and engage in corporate and individual Quaker spiritual practices, and explore how to …
April 2021 – An Overview of the Faithful Meetings Program Read More »
We find stories to be powerful testimonies to how God is leading in our lives. So Snapshots is inaugurating a new feature in which we’ll invite the School of the Spirit community (including you) to tell us what leadings look like in their lives. Think about whether you have a story to share, or know …
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“I think God always meets us where we are, and over the decade that I have been a Friend I have been in so many different states of being and meeting for worship was both a comfort to me and a challenge for me but I was being as good a Friend as I knew …
Co-clerk Mary Linda McKinney asks: Am I Good Enough to be a Quaker? Read More »
From 2012 Pilgrimage to Iona, by Marybeth Toomey Marybeth shares her reflections on a pilgrimage to the isle of Iona in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.