The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 4hI really appreciate this quote. Happy World Quaker Day! 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I’ve worked probably 8 different jobs in the past 11 years and the only one that has brought as much fulfilment as the work I do at Hildegard House was teaching history at a college. Job and vocation are often two very different things. 001
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I shared this one year ago - seems quite relevant today. 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Woke up today feeling very Quaker and very plain. I’ve not been to Meeting in about a month due to work and the Midwest Catholic Worker gathering, so I’m really looking forward to going tomorrow. 020
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nearing the end of “Shameless” by Nadia Bolz-Weber and this passage really spoke to my condition. 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remembering Henri Nouwen, who died 30 years ago today (21 September 1996). 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Great quote originally shared by my CW comrade Theo. 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Happy Feast Day of St. Hildegard of Bingen from Hildegard House Catholic Worker! 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A few pictures from Sugar Creek Midwest Catholic Worker Gathering this past weekend! 021
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’m repurposing this page to focus more on Distributism, Liberation Theology, and my life at the Catholic Worker. If any of my Friends wish to unfollow, I completely understand. 071
Reposted by The Demure DistributistChris Schelin @chris-schelin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Gerrard Winstanley, who died 350 years ago today: “Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?” 02210
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed - this, despite the gospel.” - Howard Thurman 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I really appreciate today’s reading from “Daily Readings from Quaker Writings Ancient & Modern”. 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Sorry I’ve not been very active lately! However, I’ve decided to take a semi-break from Facebook and focus my activity here. 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This wisdom from Joe McHugh in the August 2026 Friends Journal really speaks to my condition. 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026At midweek Meeting today, I felt called to mention Hiroshima. We are called to hold not only the victims and their families in the Light, but the U.S. government, as well. While it has been 81 years, our government has never formally apologized or worked towards denuclearization. May this change. 031
Reposted by The Demure DistributistFCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A warning from Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui, 81 years after the U.S. atomic bombing. “Downplaying the inhumanity of nuclear weapons and accepting the use of force to pursue one’s own prosperity risk cycles of violent retaliation that could ultimately result in another Hiroshima or Nagasaki."apnews.comHiroshima marks 81st atomic bomb anniversary as mayor deplores the pursuit of nuclear weaponsHiroshima is marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city during World War II. 0149
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I’ve finished rereading “The Long Loneliness”. Instead of rereading more Dorothy Day books, I decided to check out another book from the Meetinghouse library. This should be interesting! #currentlyreading 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 02/08/2026The Meetinghouse in which my ancestors worshipped, as depicted in “By Land and By Sea” by Hiram H. Hilty. The book even mentions two of my ancestors - Thomas Beals and John Carter. 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Upon finishing the book on the Stonewall Riots, I have once again read every book in my library. So I decided to check one out from the Meetinghouse library! #currentlyreading 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Catching up on my Daily Quaker Readings and this one really spoke to my condition - especially the third paragraph. “There are times when God seems a distant and elusive vision. If meditation and prayer brings a moment's peace, our neighbor's emptiness soon chases it away.” 000
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I’ve reached this passage in Penington’s writings. I love Paulette Meier’s plainsong version of this: youtu.be/ONDkZz8cSYQ?... 110
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026In reading works by Isaac Penington, I’ve come to a realization: I’ve not felt God at Meeting for the past few months. Yet, for the most part, I’ve continued to dress plain and use plain speech among Friends. I initially began dressing plain and using plain speech out of a sense of joy… 1/2 120
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Reading articles about the SBC’s position on female pastors brought to mind this quote. Fascinating (and sad) how little some things have changed over the years. 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026“Sometimes prayer is more than a light before us; it is a light within us. Those who have once been resplendent with this light find little meaning in speculations about the efficacy of prayer.” Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel is sounding very Quakerly here! 140
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 14/07/2026My Friend Lloyd Lee Wilson is speaking to my condition here. 040
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Wisdom from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. 040
Reposted by The Demure DistributistFCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026One thing is clear: More war on Iran is not the answer. After months of senseless + disasterous violence, it's time to end this war once and for all, not restart it. 0228
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Imagine if this were the basis of society, rather than profit and competition. 020
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Ngl, I’ve been feeling super gay and not very Quaker lately. I met an incredible guy and spending time with him has filled many voids that I think I was previously filling with my faith tradition. I’ve always found it difficult to balance passions - I’m either completely obsessed or uninterested. 140
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Alban Hefin hapus! Heuldro’r Haf hapus! 020
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Walked down to Lake Superior for the first time in a while. Just lying on a big rock, feeling the sun and the breeze and listening to the water. 050
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Geoffrey Durham speaks my mind. I hated Fox’s Journal. As I read it, all I could think was “If I lived during Fox’s time, I would NOT have become a Friend.” 121
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Ngl, while I love the teachings of Christ, I’ve been feeling more and more deist or even nontheist lately. While I definitely believe in something beyond our world, I’m finding it more and more difficult to believe in an omnipotent God who loves us. 020
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Dêt aflwyddiannus arall. Bydda i’n sengl am byth, dwi’n meddwl. Pa mor anodd yw hi i ffeindio PTH yn y byd?? Dwi wedi blino o…bopeth. Dwi eisiau roi’r gorau i geisio… 010
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026“For Quakers, following Christ has never meant merely professing a faith, but reflecting, in daily life, the character of the Son of God in human relationships, in service, and in the way the divine presence is recognized in every person.” - Ana Cabrera Vega, May 2026 Friends Journal 042
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026“[N]ow I understood that this Quaker meeting was not about individual meditation so much as a communal, joint stillness in which a group of people could reach a degree of understanding entirely separate and distinct from anything they might discover alone.“ - Geoffrey Durham, “Being a Quaker” 183
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Remembering the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting ten years later… 021
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Stolen from “Quaker Insurrection” on Facebook. 010
Reposted by The Demure DistributistBen Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 03/06/2026'We have an economy that needs to grow, whether or not it makes us thrive. We need an economy that makes us thrive, whether or not it grows' (Kate Raworth, "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist").💚 162
The Demure Distributist @friendmabon.bsky.social · 04/06/2026With all the evil in the world that is technically legal, the words of Levi Coffin have been speaking to my condition lately. 000
