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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

" the job of hope: to lobby within the legislature of the heart for space…and say, I think we can crack a window and sneak in some goodies here." Laying Down the Weapons ‘Round Our Hearts’ -- John Calvi, Friends General Conference, 1990 johncalvi.com/laying-down-... #quaker #fgc

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Laying Down the Weapons ‘Round Our Hearts’ – John Calvi

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 28/01/2026

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I believe there is no sin in failure. Sin is in turning our backs on the possibility of our being a channel for the Spirit to work. We are not called to be perfect; we are called to be present. -- Arlene Kelly www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/reference/ke... #quaker

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Strengthening Our Meetings as Caring Communities

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

"I cannot afford the luxury of fighting one form of oppression only. I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group... " — Audre Loude

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

For When People Ask I want a word that means okay and not okay, more than that: a word that means devastated and stunned with joy.... -- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer #poetry read the whole poem: grateful.org/resource/for...

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For When People Ask - Poem on gratefulness.org

I want a word that means/okay and not okay,/more than that: a word that means/devastated and stunned with joy.

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

“what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things?” — Ross Gay, Inciting Joy

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This online workshop with Dwight Dunston is for folks who are interested and committed to interrogating and challenging their own habits and patterns in conflict, learning new skills, and being faithful to how spirit is calling them to show up in moments of tension. pendlehill.org/calendar/lis...

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eustace @eustace.justshootme.ca · 28/08/2025

#Alt4You

THE UNLOCKING OF COSMIC POWER AND LOVE CAN BE
ACCOMPLISHED IF YOU WILL BECOME
UTTERLY, COMPLETELY
OBEDIENT TO THE LIGHT WITHIN YOU.
Cecil Hinshaw,
1911-1982

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

"Changing ourselves, changing the world" 2018 Swarthmore Lecture by Chris Alton, an artist and a #quaker www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-rp...

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SWARTHMORE LECTURE 2018 Chris Alton

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

"as you step you into doing this work, if the work is about liberation or justice or equity or integrity... knowing that whoever you are working with is you, and having that heart connection makes all the difference in the world" -- Niyonu Spann

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

New mini episode of The Seed! We're revisiting our most downloaded conversation across six seasons, featuring visionary leader Niyonu Spann. Through excerpts from her full episode, Niyonu shares what it means to live with integrity and alignment with purpose. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This week: Wed (Sept 10th) @7:30p eastern online: Spirit-Led Listening: Ways of Listening Holy listening, in the form of wide-open attention to a speaker and the Spirit that may be speaking through them, is a Quaker practice and an essential tool for learning and discerning Truth lu.ma/y75ibop7

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Howard Brinton writes about "religious pacifism as a positive way of life" and how that can be derived from #Quaker worship "A new and positive word for pacifism is community." longer quote with audio: www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/reference/pe...

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The Quaker Peace Testimony

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

〝Abuse represents not only a private tragedy, but a community failure.〞 — Jade Rockwell Read or listen to audio recording of "Wise as Serpents, Harmless as Doves: Spiritual Approach to Abuse Prevention in Friends Meetings" www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/resources

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Silent Joy @silentjoy.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A quote I love from Thomas Kelly's A Testament of Devotion. Whether we call it the Christ Within or the Spirit, the Light calls us to live more wholly, more lovingly, from the inside out. Returning again and again to that still centre, where love begins again.

The Inner Light, the Inward Christ, is no mere doctrine, belonging peculiarly to a small religious fellowship, to be accepted or rejected as a mere belief. It is the living Center of Reference for all Christian souls and Christian groups—yes, and of non-Christian groups as well—who seriously mean to dwell in the secret place of the Most High. He is the center and source of action, not the endpoint of thought. He is the locus of commitment, not a problem for debate.

Practice comes first in religion, not theory or dogma.
And Christian practice is not exhausted in outward deeds. These are the fruits, not the roots. A practicing Christian must above all be one who practices the perpetual return of the soul into the inner sanctuary, who brings the world into its Light and rejudges it, who brings the Light into the world with all its turmoil and its fitfulness and re-creates it (after the pattern seen on the Mount).
--Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion

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Life and Power: Quaker Discernment on Abuse @lifeandpower.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

We've started a collection of #Quaker writings on how Friends are facing the reality of abuse within our communities. www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/resources

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