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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.**
Category Archives: Messages
Water into Wine
Some have come to question God’s response to human suffering and have concluded all sorts of things about God’s character or even that there is no God at all. But this quiet miracle challenges that conclusion by suggesting that sometimes … Continue reading →
Leann Williams and Amber Joplin’s Messages
For the Sundays on each side of Christmas this year Leann Williams and Amber Joplin agreed to prepare messages to be shared in meetings for worship at Spokane Friends.
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Shepherds Quaker
Shepherds Quake Just prior to our recent national election Mark Danner, writing from Ramallah for the New York Review of Books, concluded his article saying: “Across eleven years of the war on terror, and two presidents, the politics of fear have … Continue reading →
Shepherds Quake
Shepherds Quake Luke 2:8-20 Fear is a distressing, unpleasant emotion evoked by the dread of or threat of imminent harm. Its source is our anticipating a loss of some kind. Friday the worst fear of the parents of twenty elementary … Continue reading →
Prepare the way of the Lord
Our advent isn’t about Jesus coming to us – it is about Jesus accompanying us on our journey of faith. It is the advent of our salvation. Its ultimate manifestation, which entered the world with Jesus’ birth, is when Christ … Continue reading →
Jesus is Coming – Advent I
George Fox then began, in the middle of the puritan revolution, to preach that “Christ has come to teach his people himself.” His conviction was a new immediacy of revelation. The Light, the Holy Spirit, would lead a person to … Continue reading →
The Glorious and Gentle Rule of Jesus Christ
Christ the King Sunday Neat things happen sometimes for reasons that may be questionable. In 1925 Pope Pius XI created The festival of Christ the King. It was to be celebrated on the last Sunday in October primarily to … Continue reading →
A Thanksgiving Message
John Calvin wrote that an idol is anything that comes between us and God. A key three places in this passage the word “worry” shows up. The Greek word means be preoccupied with or be absorbed by. To be preoccupied with food or … Continue reading →
How Should Pacifists Quakers Commemorate Veteran’s Day?
How Should Confirmed Christian Pacifists Commemorate Veterans Day? Veterans’ Day this year falls on Sunday. In most years Veterans’ Day passes in churches with little or no mention. Historically and traditionally, Veterans’ Day has been … Continue reading →
Who’s On First
Early, in Meeting for Worship, the full script of the classic Abbott and Costello’s “Who’s On First” was read. The focus of worship, noted especially in the music used, was love. The Story from Mark, while sharing that focus called … Continue reading →
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