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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
“They went off to follow him.”
When Jesus calls us to follow, what is it that me must leave behind? What keeps us from following? Jesus doesn’t force himself into lives other wise occupied. Dare we open ourselves to his coming into our territory and declaring … Continue reading →
Readiness to Hear God’s Call
The Ark of the Covenant rested at Shiloh, the worship sight where, in the tent where old Eli slept and Samuel served. That almost takes my breath away. We’ve all seen the Indiana Jones movie where the search is for … Continue reading →
Hydrophobic Quakers
To John the Baptist’s consternation, Jesus, of whom he had said, “I am not fit to kneel down and undo the strap of his sandals,” lines up to receive a baptism of repentance. It is an upsetting question for John … Continue reading →
Advent IV Behold!
While Luke describes Zechariah and Elizabeth in glowing terms (“righteous … living blamelessly”), Mary is simply “a virgin.” She is not described as extraordinarily holy but a rather ordinary person like each of us. Mary’s life was moving along a … Continue reading →
“How God Slips In” The Third Sunday of Advent
Advent III “How God Slips In” The season of Advent is about God making Christ’s presence known in our world, bringing justice and peace, righteousness and faithfulness, truth and mercy into the lives of the captives, the broken hearted … Continue reading →
Here Is Your God
Advent II “Here is Your God!” It is at this time each year that our attention is drawn to the Messiah by George Frederick Handel. Combined with the libretto prepared by Charles Jennens, which is more or less Old and … Continue reading →
It’s Hard To Tell The Difference – Sometimes….
Some of the scariest perspectives in all contemporary Christianity find their foundation in these concluding parables of Matthew’s Gospel. Some of the people who are into “the end of the world as we know it” to quote one of the … Continue reading →
Investment Strategies
Recently on This American Life, a program on National Public Radio, they addressed our current economic climate in a valiant attempt to make understandable to a dummy like me such arcane things as “credit default swaps” and “stock infusion plans.” … Continue reading →
Statues, Statutes or … .
November 9, 2008 On October 2, Governor Sarah Palin made a statement of genuine importance that demands analysis. She said “But even more important is that world view that I share with John McCain. That world view … Continue reading →
A Time of Change
November 2 A Time of Change Was it Halloween? Or just all the leaves I’ve been mulching. Maybe it is the return to Pacific Standard Time. Maybe it is that it is election time. Every year at this time we’ve … Continue reading →
Spokane Friends Meeting 
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