I just learned that a Quaker Pagan friend of mine is moving to Seattle in August! It's just for a year, while her partner is in school, but I'm terribly excited. I just sent her an email that was full of exclamation points.

I love the thought that someone who really gets both sides of my spirituality will be here. She's also a wonderful singer, ( Read more... )

A Quaker couple, Ruah Swennerfelt and Louis Cox (who also happen to be the staff of the Quaker Earthcare Witness organization) are on a 1400-mile Peace for Earth Walk from Vancouver, B.C, to San Diego, Calif. They have undertaken this walk as a way to meeting with Quaker meetings and churches about how John Woolman's call to live in right ( Read more... )

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Quaker Smarty-Pants
You scored 95 in QuakerKnowledge!

You are either a Quaker, you know one personally, or you're just a good guesser. Either way, give yourself a pat on the back - you deserve it.

To learn even more about the Quakers, check 'em out on Wikipedia's Quakerism Entry.

Thanks for taking the Quaker Knowledge Test! written by ( Read more... )

Here are excerpts from three separate posts by quakerpagan which spoke to me and my experience as a Quaker Pagan deeply.

1) While describing attending the summer gathering of New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM), Cat quotes from the NEYM Faith and Practice. I thought this was a lovely description of the multitude of ways to experience the Divine, and like ( Read more... )

I feel like I need a new icon for my Quaker-related posts. Something with a grey bonnet, perhaps?

EDIT: trying one out. Do you like?

One of my favorite new blogs is Quaker Pagan Reflections (aka quakerpagan) written by - you guessed it - another Quaker Pagan. Actually, a Quaker Pagan couple. They are lovely writers and the posts are well-thought out and ( Read more... )

From yesterday's PI:

Many candles are lit at vigils for fallen soldiers
Diverse motivations bring people to public gatherings

Among the hundreds of people who gathered Wednesday in Seattle for candlelight vigils mourning the 2,000 U.S. troops killed in the war in Iraq, all three said they know that war protest in liberal Seattle is nothing new ( Read more... )