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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.**
Category Archives: Messages
Getting Beyond Bhat Sheva
Psalm 51 is a much loved Psalm. We especially revere a few specific verses. 10Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. 7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be … Continue reading →
Psalm 38
Wouldn’t it be grand to have such a relationship with God that we’d dare be so bold as David: to remind God to be more gentle with us in God’s discipline; to remind God of God’s promise to not … Continue reading →
Psalm 32
As a preface to Paul’s love poem in 1st Corinthians he concludes chapter 12 declaring “I can show you a more excellent way”. Verse 8 of Psalm 32 says something very similar. “I will instruct you and teach you the … Continue reading →
A Prayer in Time of Trouble Psalm 6
A part of us clings to the naïve notion that God’s love for us is tied to our behavior: good behavior earns God’s love and acceptance; bad behavior means divine rejection. That’s a diabolical lie and the psalmist knows it! Finally, with eyes wide open, David readily admits his sin and begs God’s mercy anyway. Sin darkens human vision and alienates the soul from God, from self, and from others. Sin’s greatest danger is its ability to make us doubt God’s love and willingness to forgive. Continue reading →
What a Quaker Might Give Up For Lent…
Thinking about Ash Wednesday Yes, we are dust, but we are earthly dust, springing from a divine creative adventure. Dust is good. It is the place of fecundity, of moist dark soil. We are frail, but we are also … Continue reading →
Free Love From Its Hallmark Captivity!
Paul’s discussion about love isn’t sentimental. But what he says about love sounds a bit lofty, elevated, almost perfect. And that’s odd because he’s talking to a congregation that was arguing about food, about worship, about, well, everything. He stops … Continue reading →
Hometown Boy Does Good
I know. Christmas seems to have been a really long time ago. We’ve long since returned what we didn’t like, exchanged what didn’t fit, put away most of our decorations, discarded the wrapping paper and have gotten on with life. … Continue reading →
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 →
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