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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGbs... Watch the artist for Friends Incubator for Public Ministry, Joey Hartmann-Dow, and Quaker scholar, ben Pink Dandelion, talk about how he (and probably you too) is/are a public minister! We're about to launch a fully illustrated collection of stories like this!

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Is Public Ministry a Choice? with Ben Pink Dandelion

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Please join Sweet Miche's "Let Your Life Stream: Public Ministry in the Age of Algorithms" First Monday Lecture on April 6, where they'll discuss what it means to let your life speak in a world shaped by algorithms and influencers. Register for free at pendlehill.org/calendar/let...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🌶️ Book talk with Jay Marshall & Windy Cooler on Spice Up Your Life: Reflections on the Testimonies 📅 Thu Nov 6, 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET 🎟️ Register: FriendsIncubator.org 📖 Get 25% off the book with registration 🕊️

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

✨ “When I hear stories of the ways others have experienced the Spirit at work, my faith is strengthened.” Discernment isn’t a moment for Quaker public ministers. It’s a way of walking together. 🌿 👉 friendsincubator.org/post/guest-post-marcelle-martin-on-discernment

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Guest Post: Marcelle Martin On Discernment

Every so often we invite a Quaker public minister or elder to take over our weekly blog. This is one such week! We're so happy to be welcoming Marcelle Martin as this week's guest blogger in anticipat...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Want to hear about a deeply unpleasant but important public minister from 18th and 19th-century American Quakerism? Read on and listen to this short lecture on Joseph Hoag by Quaker historian Tom Hamm! www.friendsincubator.org/post/joseph-...

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Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: Joseph Hoag and the Uncomfortable Gift

Joseph Hoag (1762–1846) was a remarkable Quaker minister whose life was filled with faith, courage, and a deep sense of divine calling. Born in Dutchess County, New York, to devoted Quaker parents, he...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

‪@cosmichope.bsky.social‬ and I think we've got a spark. Join us in exploring your experience of the divine and the curiosities of the ages through the fire of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Spinoza, biblical texts of terror, and process theology. What's that? www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/quak...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

🌱 What if naming someone out loud was the most loving act of ministry you could offer? In conversation, we reflect on intimacy, privacy & boundaries in Quaker public ministry. Queries included so you can join in. 📖 Read here: www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-sha...

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The Shape of Quaker Ministry: Kody Hersh in Conversation on Intimacy, Privacy, and Love

When Kody and I made an appointment to talk this last time, our original plan was to discuss writing as a form of public ministry. In a previous entry in this series on living public ministers in our ...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

🌿 “Truth for authority, not authority for truth.” Tom Hamm joins us to lift up Lucretia Mott—abolitionist, reformer, Quaker public minister—whose stubborn hope still calls us to courage today. Read the full piece ➡️ www.friendsincubator.org/post/tom-ham... #Quakers #PublicMinistry #LucretiaMott

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Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: Lucretia Mott

Sitting with Tom Hamm to talk about Lucretia Mott feels a bit like opening a window. Fresh air rushes in—plain speech, clear-eyed courage, and a stubborn hope that refuses to let injustice have the la...

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Eileen Flanagan worships with Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting and holds a minute of religious service. Her new book Common Ground is part of that ministry. The book comes from years of climate justice organizing and public action brought forward from her faith. Learn more: www.pym.org/efcommongrou...

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Clerking is back at Pendle Hill this fall! Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long! pendlehill.org/calendar/fri...

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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home. If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.

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Offices Currently Available for Lease – Friends Center

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · 02/09/2025

Common Ground is Quaker activist Eileen Flanagan's account of her experience in the climate justice movement, a collection of “lessons in resistance and solidarity” that Flanagan has picked up along the way in her life-changing journey to protect the earth.

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REVIEWED: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation

"Lessons in resistance and solidarity” learned over the course of Eileen Flanagan's life-changing journey to protect the earth.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

What does it really mean to be called into Quaker public ministry? Our latest blog circles this urgent, beautiful question—while celebrating the surge of interest in our new fellowship. Spirit is moving, and the hunger is real. 🌱🔥 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/too-lon...

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Too Long; Didn't Read: Who Are Public Ministers? A Review of The Past Two Months!

It's been two months since our last "Too Long; Didn't Read" update on our blog activity at the Friends Incubator. During this time our blog has circled around one urgent and beautiful question: What d...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Last week we cracked open Walter Brueggemann’s Prophetic Imagination with Jim Webner—grief + hope, lament + amazement, a word for now. Didn’t make it? No worries. Join us Wed, Aug 27 @ 7pm ET. Free, donations very welcome 🌱 📖 Recap: tinyurl.com/59j9mwuv 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yckeyj4m

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The Prophet in Public Ministry: Exercising the Prophetic Imagination in Troubled Times | Friends Incubator for Public Ministry

What can public ministers learn from the "prophetic imagination" and how do we apply lessons gleaned from biblical prophets to our labors right now? Join Jim Webner from August 20th until September 17...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

See you tonight!! If you want to come, registration is required, free (donations welcome) and available on our website: friendsincubator.org.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

🌟 Ministry takes many shapes. In convo w/ Windy Cooler, Kody Hersh lifts up the gifts of Peterson Toscano, Amanda Kemp, eppchez yo-sí yes & Cai Quirk—artists whose Spirit-led creativity is ministry rooted in love. 💜 The gifts we give each other help us live into transformation. 👉 shorturl.at/o20cr

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Ministry Beyond Shape: Kody Hersh on Love, Art, and Faithful Creativity

In late July, Public Minister Kody Hersh joined me in a Zoom interview we had planned for a while. He's joining me in a series of testimonies about our friends in ministry who have influenced and insp...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

What does it really mean to carry a concern? Will you survive it? 🕊️ Angela Hopkins speaks plainly about the cost of public ministry—& the toll on ministers of color. 💬 “That is faithfulness… not that it looks like Rembrandt made it.” 👉 tinyurl.com/55yhnu9b #Quakers #PublicMinistry

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🔥 “It was something that couldn't not happen.” ross brubeck felt the call to public ministry like fire—explosive, undeniable. So he walked. From Brooklyn to D.C. A revival in motion. Read a public ministry story from the 2025 Quaker Walk to Washington: tinyurl.com/29ume5ac

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

✨ The Friends Incubator Fellowship for Public Ministry is now OPEN for applications! 🌿 Are you called to public ministry—or supporting someone who is? This 2-year journey offers real support for ministers, elders & meetings. Apply now 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/fellowship #Quaker #PublicMinistry 🐦‍⬛

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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The third of @woodbrooke.bsky.social's 2025 Eva Koch Scholar presentations, 'Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation' given by our Justice and Peace Secretary Hezron Masitsa, is now available to watch online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uK4...

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Eva Koch 2025 Part 3 Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

✨ The Courage to Be Faithful Anyway: 19th-c. DIVORCED Quaker minister Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader preached boldly and lived prophetically. Her story still speaks, as Tom Hamm shows us in the second in our series on #Quaker #PublicMinistry. 🕊️ Read more: tinyurl.com/4am65jv6 #FriendsIncubator

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

📣 Aug 20–Sept 17: What can Quaker public ministers learn from the “prophetic imagination”? Join Jim Webner for a 5-week drop-in course. Hosted by Friends Incubator. www.friendsincubator.org/event-list 🕊️ #Quaker

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

💸 What does your Quaker meeting spend money on? Tracy Booth shares how the Lyman Fund has backed 660+ leadings—without fundraising—by investing in faithfulness, not outcomes. 🕊️ Money can be ministry. Clearness is care. Legacy starts small. ✨ Read more: shorturl.at/7oiLH #Quaker #Ministry

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Ministry, Money, and Miracles: What the Lyman Fund Can Teach Us About Spirit-Led Giving

What does your meeting spend money on? Does ministry cost...money?When Tracy Booth (New England Yearly and Baltimore Yearly) joined me for a conversation about the small ministry grant maker, Lyman Fu...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Information sessions are being scheduled right now for this summer for the Friends Incubator for Public Ministry. Sign up to receive updates about information sessions and the application to join the first cohort of #Quaker meetings, ministers, and elders. www.friendsincubator.org/cohort

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Join author Brian Drayton and Friends Incubator for Public Ministry for a pay-as-led lecture and discussion on the centuries-old practices of Quakers traveling with a ministry concern! www.friendsincubator.org/event-list

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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Autumn is traditional the time when people settle down with warm crumpets in hideous stretchy jumpers. It's also the time when myself and @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social will be offering a short reflective course on contemporary Quaker Theology. 🌟🙏 www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/quak...

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Quaker Visions of God - Woodbrooke

What treasures do Friends have when speaking about God? What stories help or hinder us in our spiritual journey? Each of the four weekly sessions will be

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

www.friendsincubator.org/post/ravens-... Take a little trip to our new website and join the Incubator's facilitated conversation about Quaker Friends, right relationship, community and ministry. Visit our advisory board and find out about future events!

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Ravens and Wildflowers

Look at the ravens, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, carefree in the care of God. And you count far more. Has anyone by fussing before the mirror ever gotten taller by so much ...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Something is being born in our field of cut-up Quaker poppies. "Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them...Consider how the wildflowers grow..." Luke 12:24-28

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Wisdom and scholarship from 1980 on the topic of Quaker public ministry. Have you experienced the "illness" of a concern Bill Taber describes and/or the psychic "near sympathy" of visitation? digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Are you a Quaker? Liberal, Conservative, Evangelical, Programmed, Semiprogrammed, Unprogramed? Interested in the topic of ministry? Take the survey on Quaker public ministry as we prepare for our first focus group on public ministry! forms.gle/EUeWNASKNsZP... #Quaker #PublicMinistry #FGC

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Survey for a Focus Group on Quaker Public Ministry

Join a Focus Group on Quaker Public Ministry, hosted by Lynette Davis of the Friends Incubator for Public Ministry, and cosponsored by Friends General Conference. This online, structured discussion ...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Are you wondering how to think about support and accountability for #Quaker #TravelingMinistry or #PublicMinistry within your local #QuakerMeeting context? One thing you can do is ask to discern a #TravelMinute. Pictured is one issued to my family for a trip, with a response. Ask me about it.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

My local (unprogrammed and liberal) #Quaker meeting recently created a way for #PublicMinisters (also sometimes called #TravelingMinisters or #PublicFriends) to be financially supported through tax-deductible donations! Talk to me if this is an idea you would like your #QuakerMeeting to take up.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Are you feeling overwhelmed by the conflict in your life and the world? Please consider taking this online course with me in June on how to change how we communicate as people and as communities to help us see what needs our attention. tinyurl.com/jfsvy65c More here: tiny.cc/brv8001

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Coming Together for Continuing Revelation: Quaker Approaches to Dialogue - Woodbrooke

This course is drawn from Windy's experience with developing and using ‘Coming together for Continuing Revelation’, which is a creative new model for

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Mark D Russ @markdruss.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

There's still time to register for my online book group, discussing my latest publication "The Spirit of Freedom." Begins Monday 13 January! 🤩https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/book-club-the-spirit-of-freedom-with-mark-russ/ #quaker #theology #spirituality

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Book Club: The Spirit of Freedom with Mark Russ - Woodbrooke

In this his second book, Mark brings together the best of his writing from the last decade. Each week, you will read a selection of chapters from the

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

www.friendsjournal.org/preparing-ou... "This is not so much about holding people accountable as it is about opening up in order to create the environment in which we can be reliably loving to one another in the world as it really exists."

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Preparing Ourselves to Receive Reliable Love

An interview with Quaker minister Windy Cooler on interpersonal violence.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Why are Quaker pirates...pirates? They just aaaaaaarrrrgh!

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