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Ohio Yearly Meeting’s Conservative Friends Gathering

by micahUncategorized June 23, 20080 comments

This weekend, Friday evening through Sunday morning (or Sixth Day through First Day, in the local parlance), I attended the Gathering of Conservative Friends, hosted by Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative), at Olney Friends School and Stillwater Monthly Meeting’s meetinghouse. This was my first experience of any gathering of Conservative Friends, having previously only met Conservative …

On to Barnesville!

by micahUncategorized June 20, 20080 comments

On Wednesday evening, the 18th, Andrew and I made our way to Cancun, the (in)famous resort city best known for Spring Break debauchery. In addition to being a hotspot for big-dollar beach tourism, it is also the site of the principal airport in the region, where Andrew and I were flying out from. We made …

Yucatán, idleness and Quaker Monasticism

by micahUncategorized June 17, 20084 comments

Since my last post, Andrew and I have gone from Mexico City to Xalapa, Ver., to Veracruz, Ver., and are now in Mérida, Yucatán. Ever since leaving Xalapa, the weather has been steamy, and these boys from Kansas are scrambling to adapt to the heat and humidity of the region. We’ve seen some concerts – …

GPYM, and visiting Friends in Mexico City

by micahUncategorized June 10, 20080 comments

I have shared Great Plains Yearly Meeting’s (GPYM) epistle, below, which communicates the corporate sense of the sessions. For me personally, there was a lot to chew on this year. I gave a number of reports, lead a Bible study/worship service, and I brought my concern to travel among Friends in the Great Plains region …

Epistle from Great Plains Yearly Meeting, 2008

by micahUncategorized June 9, 20080 comments

8th, Sixth Month, 2008 Epistle from Great Plains Yearly Meeting (formerly Nebraska Yearly Meeting) To all Friends everywhere, We send greetings to Friends in all parts of the world from Central City, Nebraska, which to some of us feels like holy ground. In the shadow of the stately Old Main, which was the center of …

True Evangelism is Inseparable from a Life Lived Faithfully

by micahUncategorized June 3, 20086 comments

I believe that the Truth is far bigger than any human set of ideas about the Truth, any faith community, any tradition, any religious institution. While I believe that anyone who actually denies Jesus (the Messiah) has got it wrong, it seems undeniable to me that many people from non-Christian faiths are further along in …

YAF Gathering in Richmond

by micahUncategorized May 30, 20080 comments

As a result of my contacts with Friends in the wider Religious Society over the past few years, since attending the World Gathering of Young Friends in Lancaster, England, in 2005, I have found myself increasingly drawn into a movement of Young Adult Friends (YAFs). In February of 2007, we met together at Burlington, where …

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