Friends Journal

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Friends Journal is joining several Quaker organizations in walking away from X. You can still find us on other social media platforms—including one where the skies are bluer. It feels like we're done trying to build a house on sand, and we've got great hope for building on rock!

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"We seek to answer that of God which is to be found in every person. It seems that X is no longer a forum where this can happen."

Learn more about the Quaker organizations that are disengaging with this platform in this article from @BritishQuakers.

https://t.co/0Ual9J4Cuj

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Friends Journal is joining several Quaker organizations in walking away from X. You can still find us on other social media platforms—including one where the skies are bluer. It feels like we're done trying to build a house on sand, and we've got great hope for building on rock!

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@magpiemixture @BritishQuakers @QCEA @FCNL @Friendmagazine @FWCCWorldOffice @FWCC_EMES @pendlehillusa @WoodbrookeUK @QuakerIreland @CFSCQuakers We're all just ordinary Quakers, Friend. 🙂

(Point taken though! FJ can't speak for anyone else, but sometimes it feels like the most effective way to stand firm is to walk away—or, to use another analogy, sometimes you realize it's time to stop trying to build a house on sand.)

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For Deborah Ramsey, spirituality is not akin to anything associated with intuition, mood, aura, or whatever is “felt” hovering in the ether. It’s the knowing, concrete awareness that we naturally look out for one another simply because we're all connected.
https://t.co/C9YCwFWt1I

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"As a Quaker, clarity brings forth smoothness and reigns supreme," says Deborah B. Ramsey. "My spirituality is not optimistic or pessimistic. It simply has degrees of a love of humanity and a love of community."
https://t.co/C9YCwFWt1I

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"Sometimes sitting in worship can be excruciatingly uncomfortable," Mary Linda McKinney confided to @QuakerSpeak in 2021, "[but] I do want to live my life letting God’s will flow through me and I want to do that in community with others."
https://t.co/Ykqx9qvSOi

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Liza Wiemer and Margeaux Lucas's Out and About is a warmly illustrated book that introduces young readers to the Jewish tradition of tzedakah, or sharing resources with those in need.
https://t.co/oxN2lapa8V

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"I was a believer. I grew up
with a firm faith in the Tooth
Fairy, Jesus, and Santa Claus.
The grown-ups in my life
said it was so, and I believed
them..."
—from "In the Nick of Time" by Nancy Thomas
https://t.co/BCuZdHV4Yc

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In the support given to numerous causes over many years, Quakers have imagined a better future for the world, and however dark the surrounding portents, kept their eyes on the prize.
https://t.co/Eve2NGdEV1

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A young girl heard a Holocaust survivor speak about his experiences, and was determined that other children growing up in Oregon should know this history as well. Together, they launched a campaign to make that happen.

https://t.co/unzY1plrdB

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"All a Friend needs to ask today is a simple question: What does love require of me?" says Adrian Glamorgan. "And all a Friends meeting need ask might be: what does love require of us together?" https://t.co/Eve2NGdEV1

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"If we’re worrying, we aren’t still. We are allowing surface level storms to disturb our inner peace. We’re not waiting patiently with courage for God. Our efforts need to be toward a deep level of stillness in order to encounter the Divine within."
https://t.co/qNNRRYxYmT

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"Growing up in an evangelical Christian household, I was not allowed to listen to secular music," Jack Holloway writes in @ChristianCent—then, as an adult, he discovered the prophetic vision of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs."
https://t.co/CdufVaFpwf

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"If I weren’t a person of faith, I would probably be a dark-spirited pessimist," Mike Higgins admits. "However, my faith—supported [by] my learnings from the hopeful examples of Saint Paul and George Fox—gives me hope in God’s unfolding plan of salvation." https://t.co/qNNRRYxYmT

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Before Paul Buckley read Aliya's Story, "all I knew was that Ramadan is a month of fasting—no food or drink from sunrise to sunset—but exactly why and what that means to a believer was a little bit hazy." Farida Zaman's words and pictures subtly explain.
https://t.co/VwsyGitS5g

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"When forty-four summers have touched your face
And sown long furrows beside your eyes
When restless nights suck sleep and trace
Faint memories of our children’s cries..."
—from "Before the Fireplace: December, 1993" by Alexander Levering Kern
https://t.co/BSaPraBOSc

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Molly Beth Griffin and Anait Semirdzhyan's Just Us is "is a wonderful book to read aloud to discuss family, holiday traditions, and how to adapt to changing circumstances," says Eileen Redden. https://t.co/4GzE9lHdOC

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As Friends, we believe that we are born with the Light of God within, a spiritual guide that we can turn to for all the challenges of the human experience—including death.
https://t.co/iMepvCl3iM

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Friends will find much in Standing Up to Hate, a collection of essays by many who participated and bore witness to the counterprotests against far-right agitators in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, to help make love the first motion in all situations.
https://t.co/CopkDzSzdz

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Making ourselves open to grace means baring those parts of our psyche that are clenched in fear and expecting destruction. https://t.co/dYwyf8GNJR