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Archive of Past Readings for Reflection
July 2003 On a Small Planet: Awaiting a Distant Signal
Aug. 2003 Holding Someone in the Light: What Does It Mean? Pt. 1
Sep. 2003 Holding Someone in the Light: What Does It Mean? Pt. 2
Oct. 2003 Mysticism Among Quakers
Nov. 2003 Miss Quaker Manners
Dec. 2003 Response to LEYM Queries on Integrity
Feb. 2004 Epistle of Black, White, Asian, and Mixed-heritage Friends, 1991
May 2004 Building the Blessed Community
June 2004 Recapturing the Simplicity of Childhood Summers
July 2004 The Year of Passage in Ann Arbor Meeting
Aug. 2004 “To Live Deliberately”
Sep. 2004 Personal Journey: Universal Consciousness
Oct. 2004 Out of the Silence
Dec. 2004 On Speaking out of the Silence
Jan. 2005 On Deciding to Speak in Meeting for Worship
Feb. 2005 Speaking Rarely in Meeting for Worship
Mar. 2005 In the Life
Apr. 2005 Speaking in Meeting for Worship
May 2005 Quaker Worship
June 2005 Our Life Is Love…
July 2005 Query on Openness to the Holy Spirit
Aug. 2005 Being Tender with Each Other
Sep. 2005 On Intervisitation
Oct. 2005 LEYM Query and Advices: Active Faith & Living Practice
Nov. 2005 On Testimonies
Dec. 2005 Rufus Jones on George Fox and Christianity
Jan. 2006 Meeting Responses to LEYM Queries: Active Faith and Living Practice
Feb. 2006 First Time in Meeting for Worship
Apr. 2006 Looking for a Godly Outcome
May 2006 On Speaking in Meeting
June 2006 On Speaking in Meeting for Worship
July 2006 Proposed Query Revisions
Aug. 2006 Epistle from LEYM Middle School Group
Sep. 2006 What Gives Purpose and Direction to Our Lives?
Oct. 2006 Meeting for Worship and “Is My Message Led by the Spirit?”
Nov. 2006 Friendly Quotations and Queries on Faith & Action
Dec. 2006 LEYM Queries and Quotations on Discernment
Jan. 2007 Participative Humility in Quaker Decision Making
Feb. 2007 Combating Fearfulness
Mar. 2007 Using Quaker Practice
Apr. 2007 Building the Beloved Community
May 2007 On the Significance of Benches
June 2007 Epistle on Meeting Retreat on Building theBeloved Community
July 2007 Love: Making the Creature Most Like unto Himself
August 2007 Epistles from Lake Erie Yearly Meeting, 2007
September 2007 Teaching with Respect and withoutLimitations
October 2007 Reflecting Spirituality in Action and Language
November 2007 Finding the Prophetic Voice for our Time
December 2007 LEYM Query and Quotations on Simplicity
January 2008 Inner Life
February 2008 Response to LEYM Query on Simplicity
March 2008 Pure Wisdom
April 2008 Sense of the Meeting
May 2008 The True Ground of Love and Unity
June 2008 The Quaker Understanding of Concern
July 2008 A Variety of Ministries
August 2008 Surrendering Moral Principles
September 2008 Alternative Response to 9/11
October 2008 Feeling our Way to the Silence Within
November 2008 Practical Effectiveness of Nonviolent Resistance
December 2008 LEYM Query and Quotations on “the Other”
January 2009 The Spirit of History
February 2009 A Peace Squadron
March 2009 The Beatitudes – Three Versions
April 2009 The Undisturbed Opportunity for Communion with God
May 2009 Conservative Radicals
June 2009 Mindfulness Must Be Engaged
July 2009 2009 Epistle from LEYM
August 2009 Ministry of Prison Visitation
September 2009 Consolidated Response to LEYM Query and Minute of FGC Workshop on Quaker Identity
October 2009 Early Friends and “True Christianity”
November 2009 LEYM Query and Quotations on Wonder and Awe
December 2009 Visioning and Empowering
January 2010 AAFM Response to 2009 LEYM Query
February 2010 Companionship with God
March 2010 Eating the Bread of Anxious Toil
April 2010 Consolidated 2009 LEYM Query Response
May 2010 A Serious Search
June 2010 On Scripture
July 2010 Language of the Pure Spirit
August 2010 What Happens in Meeting for Worship?
September 2010 2010 Epistle from LEYM
October 2010 The Victory Tax and What It Bought
November 2010 Guernica: The Cover-Up
December 2010 Cultures of Noise and of Silence
January 2011 Brotherly Love
February 2011 Participatory Worship
March 2011 A Collective Awakening
April 2011 Within Us
May 2011 Nature of God
June 2011 What Happens in our Solitude
July 2011 Wrestling with the Peace Testimony
August 2011 Faith
September 2011 2011 Epistle from LEYM
October 2011 Woolman on Sustainable Care of Earth
November 2011 Finders/Seekers
December 2011 A Near Sympathy
January 2012 Passages for Reflection on LEYM Annual Query
February 2012 Annual Sharing on LEYM Query
March 2012 Ministering to the Meeting for Worship – Without Speaking
April 2012 Friends and Politics
May 2012 Exploring the Use of Meeting Property
June 2012 On Speaking in Meeting for Worship
July 2012 Young Friends’ Experiences of Quakerism
August 2012 Be Still and Cool in thy Own Mind and Spirit
September 2012 Anger and Compassion
October 2012 Membership in the Whole Society
November 2012 Quaker Worship in Community
December 2012 Conscience
January 2013 Passages for Reflection on LEYM Annual Query
February 2013 Friends as Good Plumbers
March 2013 Minute Following Worship Sharing on LEYM Queries
April 2013 Advices as an Addition to Queries
May 2013 Holy Obedience
June 2013 High Windows
July 2013 Moral Integrity
August 2013 A Joyful Spirit
October 2013 Simple Faith
November 2013 Vocal Ministry in the Unprogrammed Meeting
December 2013 Causes and Sources of Poverty
January 2014 Discernment about When to Speak
February 2014 Response to LEYM 2013 Annual Query
March 2014 Practice and Faith
April 2014 Sense of the Meeting (2)
May 2014 The Way Out Is the Way In
June 2014 The Light Within
July 2014 Quaker Practice Unbound from Belief
August 2014 A “Second Education”
September 2014 Working with Hope in Washington
October 2014 Affirming Quaker Commitment
November 2014 Worshipping in the Light
December 2014 Children Are Abandoned
January 2015 Annual LEYM Query
February 2015 Response to LEYM 2014 Annual Query
March 2015 Reflections on SIMPLICITY
April 2015 Lamb’s War and Climate Change
May 2015 Wrestling with Angels
June 2015 Causes Not Yet Won
July 2015 Aura Rosser
August 2015 Arresting Hate Throughout our Culture
September 2015 Hospitality in the Manner of Friends
October 2015 Epistle from Britain Yearly Meeting
November 2015 Meeting for Worship
December 2015 Myth of Police Reform
January 2016 LEYM Annual Query 2015
February 2016 Myth of Police Reform
March 2016 AAFM Response to LEYM 2015 Annual Query
April 2016 How We Care for This Earth
May 2016 Suffering and Glory
June 2016 Savor More, Consume Less
July 2016 Long Past Time to Eliminate Mass Incarceration
August 2016 This is what you shall do
September 2016 Penington on Unity and Liberty
October 2016 Queries
November 2016 The Three-Legged Stool
December 2016 Psalm 160
January 2017 The Color of Justice
February 2017 Cadbury on Friends and the Bible
March 2017 Marilyn Churchill Poems
April 2017 Testimonies and Spiritual Leading
May 2017 An Unfathomable Mystery
June 2017 Affirmations about Quaker Faith
August 2017 A Journey Whose End Is Always in Front of Us
December 2017 Practicing Awareness of the Spirit
February 2018 Annual LEYM Query, 2017
March 2018 Annual LEYM Query, 2018