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Mission Statement:
Our purpose is encouraging, loving, and supporting a diverse group of people who gather to deepen their experience of the inner light of God. We direct this inner light outward in service to others to share the love of Christ.
**Following the teachings of the Living Christ, we are an open, loving, and affirming community.
We believe that God’s Light is inherent within all people. There are no exceptions.**
Author Archives: maggiemax15
Selective Amnesia
Out of love for Israel God develops selective amnesia. The God of Israel, the One who neither slumbers nor sleeps, chooses to forget. What do you make of this? Is this a metaphor, a dramatic play of words? Has God … Continue reading →
The Briefest Gospel
The briefest Gospel. It seems that when you encounter the Gospel as it is presented today it comes shrouded in theories of atonement and tightly wrapped up in peoples’ world views and various ways of restricting God’s grace. Sometimes it … Continue reading →
Sema for Quakers
The third verse of the whole Bible begins “God said…” One of the truly great things about our God is that our God speaks. And when God speaks wondrous things happen – like creation. In the sixth chapter of the … Continue reading →
The Hound of Heaven
Allowing ourselves to become captive to Christ’s spirit, to allow oneself to be apprehended, taken into custody like a Sheriff would an escaped inmate, is as close a description as we can imagine to the meaning of utter, complete and … Continue reading →
Front Door Friends
I’ve got this notion. Well, it is more than a notion, it is a piece of my theology. It is that as a Meeting, as a worshipping community, Spokane Friends consists of those people Christ calls to come through those front … Continue reading →
“Now, a little dose of humility…”
The birthplace of the modern prison system, the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, was the first institution in the United States designed to both punish and rehabilitate criminals. It was built by Quakers in 1773. When expanded in 1790 each … Continue reading →
Quaker Spice Five – EQUALITY
As I began to try and wrap my mind around this spice we are calling “Equality” it soon became clear to me that the concept might work relatively well for cereal in cardboard boxes, commercial sweeteners or commodities subject to … Continue reading →
Quaker Spice Five – Equality
As I began to try and wrap my mind around this spice we are call “Equality” it soon became clear to me that the concept might work relatively well for cereal in cardboard boxes, commercial sweeteners or commodities subject to … Continue reading →
Quaker Spice IV Community
Quaker Spice IV Community The first glimpse we have of what we could call Christian community, according to John, occurred behind doors which had been locked out of fear. Jesus returned and blew his breath on those gathered, imparting … Continue reading →
Quaker Spice III Integrity
In November of 2008 a Times article answered the question: Why Sasha and Malia will go to Sidwell Friends School? Among other reasons listed was that “in a Puritan culture that viewed children as evil miniatures corrupted by original sin, … Continue reading →
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