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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 14d

“what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things?” — Ross Gay, Inciting Joy

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 16d

This online workshop with Dwight Dunston is for folks who are interested and committed to interrogating and challenging their own habits and patterns in conflict, learning new skills, and being faithful to how spirit is calling them to show up in moments of tension. pendlehill.org/calendar/lis...

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · Aug 28

#Alt4You

THE UNLOCKING OF COSMIC POWER AND LOVE CAN BE
ACCOMPLISHED IF YOU WILL BECOME
UTTERLY, COMPLETELY
OBEDIENT TO THE LIGHT WITHIN YOU.
Cecil Hinshaw,
1911-1982

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 17d

“We have come of age in a systemically racist world…It is our duty as Quakers not only to acknowledge our own privilege and power, but to use them, to actively address these society-wide issues.” — Chris Alton

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 17d

“The only way to protect joy is to practice it.” — Fred Moten

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 17d

“emancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.”
― Mark Fisher

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 17d

"Changing ourselves, changing the world" 2018 Swarthmore Lecture by Chris Alton, an artist and a #quaker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-rp...

SWARTHMORE LECTURE 2018 Chris Alton

YouTube video by Woodbrooke

www.youtube.com

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 18d

"as you step you into doing this work, if the work is about liberation or justice or equity or integrity... knowing that whoever you are working with is you, and having that heart connection makes all the difference in the world" -- Niyonu Spann

Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 20d

New mini episode of The Seed! We're revisiting our most downloaded conversation across six seasons, featuring visionary leader Niyonu Spann. Through excerpts from her full episode, Niyonu shares what it means to live with integrity and alignment with purpose. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 20d

New mini episode of The Seed! We're revisiting our most downloaded conversation across six seasons, featuring visionary leader Niyonu Spann. Through excerpts from her full episode, Niyonu shares what it means to live with integrity and alignment with purpose. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · Sep 8

This week: Wed (Sept 10th) @7:30p eastern online: Spirit-Led Listening: Ways of Listening

Holy listening, in the form of wide-open attention to a speaker and the Spirit that may be speaking through them, is a Quaker practice and an essential tool for learning and discerning Truth

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · Jul 16

Howard Brinton writes about "religious pacifism as a positive way of life" and how that can be derived from #Quaker worship

"A new and positive word for pacifism is community."

longer quote with audio: www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/reference/pe...

The Quaker Peace Testimony

www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · Jul 2

〝Abuse represents not only a private tragedy, but a community failure.〞 — Jade Rockwell

Read or listen to audio recording of "Wise as Serpents, Harmless as Doves: Spiritual Approach to Abuse Prevention in Friends Meetings" www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/resources

Resources

www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com

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Silent Joy @silentjoy.bsky.social · Jun 27

A quote I love from Thomas Kelly's A Testament of Devotion.

Whether we call it the Christ Within or the Spirit, the Light calls us to live more wholly, more lovingly, from the inside out.

Returning again and again to that still centre, where love begins again.

The Inner Light, the Inward Christ, is no mere doctrine, belonging peculiarly to a small religious fellowship, to be accepted or rejected as a mere belief. It is the living Center of Reference for all Christian souls and Christian groups—yes, and of non-Christian groups as well—who seriously mean to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. He is the center and source of action, not the endpoint of thought. He is the locus of commitment, not a problem for debate.

Practice comes first in religion, not theory or dogma.
And Christian practice is not exhausted in outward deeds. These are the fruits, not the roots. A practicing Christian must above all be one who practices the perpetual return of the soul into the inner sanctuary, who brings the world into its Light and rejudges it, who brings the Light into the world with all its turmoil and its fitfulness and re-creates it (after the pattern seen on the Mount).
--Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · Jun 30

We've started a collection of #Quaker writings on how Friends are facing the reality of abuse within our communities.

www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/resources

Resources

www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com

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