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Early report on NEYM and FUM

August 6th, 2007 | Quakerism, Real-world Quakerism, Liberal Quakerism, Quaker practice, Meeting for Business and Travel.

Anyone who saw this year’s New England Yearly Meeting sessions schedule (PDF) might have assumed, as I did, that yesterday’s 7 pm meeting for business session on “Our relationship to Friends United Meeting“ might have produced something newsworthy.
It was a great session, but it wasn’t actually a business meeting; no action was even considered, […]

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More on understanding Quaker business meeting

July 11th, 2007 | Quakerism, Quaker practice, Meeting for Business, Young adult Friends and Post-Quakerism.

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A business meeting at Cambridge on child abuse

February 13th, 2007 | Quakerism, Real-world Quakerism, Sexuality, Politics, Liberal Quakerism, Quaker practice and Meeting for Business.

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  • So his initial message was always the same: give up your dependence on doctrines, rituals, preachers and everything else that is external to you, and find the light within you because that will teach you all you need to know. And you already know what the light is, because it's that that makes you uncomfortable about the things you do wrong. So take note of those uncomfortable feelings, and let 'the light in your conscience' show you what they're all about it. If you allow it to, the light will show you the whole truth of your life, and if you then accept that truth, it will set you free – free from guilt and shame, but also free from the powerful desires that made you act wrongly in the first place.

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