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by Carol Ciscel | Mar 2004
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Wherein lies the Life of the Meeting? Well, obviously, it is centered in Meeting for Worship on Sunday mornings. In fact one of the topics most often addressed in worship is the unique nature of the Quaker worship experience itself. It doesn’t happen every Sunday morning like clockwork, but the fulfilling sense of a gathered meeting is far from a rare occurrence at 917 So. Cooper and those of us who experience it always take home with us a feeling of fellowship and profound gratitude. |
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by Carol Ciscel | Jun 2003
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One of the most difficult things about being a Quaker is you really can’t take a back seat -- at least not all of the time. If the Society of Friends got rid of the laity, that makes us all ministers and ministers should minister. David and I attended Twin Cities Friends Meeting in St. Paul last Sunday. There are some meetings that are habitually quiet. This must be one of them. Not one of the nearly thirty persons present spoke until, at five minutes to the hour, the presiding clerk invited anyone to share a message whose thoughts had not reached the level of utterance during worship. Messages were then delivered for another 15 minutes. |
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by Carol Ciscel | Nov 2002
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Today as I write it is the second Sunday of the month. That means today Memphis Friends are holding business meeting, or, in Quakerese, Meeting for Worship for Business. Thinking about business meeting, I am reminded that Quakers think of religion as both faith and practice – both what we believe and what we do. In Meeting for Worship we experience the faith part, but it is in Meeting for Business that we can best discover the practice. Most of us get involved with Quakers for the unique experience of worship, but attending Meeting for Business is pretty nifty too. There is real spiritual depth in Quaker decision-making, which attempts to go beyond consensus, all the way to spiritual discernment. |
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