Friends are already familiar with the "Quaker Universalist Reader Number 1" with essays by John Linton, Ralph Hetherington, John Hick and Daniel Seeger among...
A slight trend? "Southeastern YM Suspends Membership in FUM Southeastern Yearly Meeting, one of five yearly meetings belonging both to Friends General...
Hello, This is my first post to this group. I have recently begun attending the Cambridge Meeting for Worship in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From what I have...
Welcome to the list, Rick. This list has been pretty quiet for a good while, but perhaps a few of us will come out to greet you, and perhaps respond to your...
Hi, James, Pure Land Buddhism is quite different from other schools of Buddhism in that it stresses faith in Amida Buddha instead of one's own effort in order...
Hi Rick, Glad to see you're on the list and thank you for an explanation of Pure Land Buddhism. Also, your take on universalist Quakerism gets to the heart of...
Thank you Rick. It made me struggle with a riddle of Quaker universalism. There is that of God in everyone. There are many spiritual customs. We could each...
Hello Friends, Our small meeting is considering renting a space. We have always done things on the cheap so this entails making changes in our operation. For...
Barbara, We also have a small meeting which rents space, and had been doing so for at least ten years. We do two things: first we put a donation box out on...
... Our finance people do a lot of begging at meeting each week. The begging becomes more strident at the end of the fiscal year when we usually face a...
At North Shore MM (Mass.), the finance cmte. just sends a letter to everyone each year, and a somewhat tame one at that, but we don't have much in the way of...
In my large meeting we have a donations slot, and the ministry and counsel committee member closing meeting usually points out that fact, and welcomes Friends...
Hi Barbara: Fundraising with Quakers has traditionally been low-key (no passing of the basket), which is nice. As a result, there are some ways to do it that...
I support donations to one's faith community, but true tithing--a tenth of gross income--strikes me as considerably more than should be expected. Tithing was...
... My meeting sends out a letter to its mailing list requesting donations only when we may have a shortfall, or if an enticing project comes up that we don't...
I'm not sure about my feelings on voluntary mutual aid vs. governmental welfare, but I can appreciate your perspective. My main point wasn't the amount so much...
At 09:24 AM 5/23/2007, you wrote: Hi Barbara, This (below) is essentially what our Meeting does as well. Occasionally, we have extra/special expenses - and...
The former clerk of our meeting had a practice of listing donations at the top of the yearly budget, not by name, (of course), but by denomination, so people...
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My name is Nancy, and I've been an active member of a local Quaker Meeting for six or seven years. During the past two years that I've been a single mom of a...
Dear Nancy, I cannot tell if anyone has responded to your introduction yet or not. Quf does not seem to be very active. I have special needs grandson, and...
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For what it's worth, you might want to check out this resource: www.nacd.org/ jim ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hello Nancy, This is a belated response to your introduction. I am replying to tell you about an online unprogrammed quaker worship group, the Online Meeting...
This is a very interesting bit of cross-fertilisation from my point of view. I have asked on the Britain Yearly Meeting email discussion list, if anyone could...
Hello Chris, I would have no objection to your quoting my description of the online meeting or using my name in the BYM e-mail discussion. Also, why don't you...
Thanks for generously agreeing to this. There have been two responses with several comments 1, of course, to suggest I join and try it out. 2, another to...
I agree with Chris on number 2, but I do think it's a significant step towards a "proper" meeting compared to simply meditating alone, where just having the...
I also agree with Chris and Zach that there is no substitute for being in the room physically with other worshipers. However, many of the members of the online...
I just read a short but clear statement of Quaker universalism in an essay from 1870, which seems way earlier than I expected. Is anyone aware of any similar...
A member of the committee of the Quaker Universalist Group (UK) received notification of the founding in the USA of "The Christian Universalist Association". ...
It is certainly odd to combine the words 'Christian' and 'Universalist' in a single phrase. My own understanding of the difference between 'ecumenism' and...
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