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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
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 →
Peace Quaker Spice Two
We’ve got to become more conscious of boundries. But not just those that are terrestrial, international, industrial or electoral. I’m suggesting that just as potentially flammable are personal boundries. It is a big issue, I googled ‘respecting personal boundries’ and … Continue reading →
Simplicity
A week after the extravagance of Christmas it’s good to ask who among us has immunity from our cultural disease of “affluenza”? Hermits would tell us that, first of all, consumption is a very social phenomenon: keeping up with one’s … Continue reading →
Emmanuel
Christmas has turned into a time when, typically, we re-tell the beloved story of Mary and Joseph, who, on a mission to pay their taxes, turn a Bethlehem barn into a birthing suite complete with farm animals, shepherds, angels, camels … Continue reading →
“Everything Needed”
In this passage from what some think to be Peter’s last will and testiment there is a wonderful promise. “His divine power has given us everything needed for life and godliness” Everything! To be called to ministry means that God has … Continue reading →
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