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Friends United Press is delighted to announce the publication of Simple Joy: Women, Ministry, Friends, by Marlene Pedigo and edited by Linda Selleck.The inspiration for Simple Joy came to Marlene Pedigo while she was a student at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, uncovering the stories of the New Testament women compelled to travel in Holy Spirit-led ministry and proclaim the Risen Christ, and learning about Friends women ministers.
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Recent cuts in the U.S. State Department's USAID program have had a direct impact on two substantial ministries of Friends United Meeting: Ramallah Friends School and Lugulu Friends Mission Hospital.
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Last weekend, Friends United Meeting’s North American Ministries Coordinator Michael Sherman answered an invitation to travel among Friends in Western New York. Farmington Friends Meeting, a member of New York Yearly Meeting, holds a Winter Speaker Series and Michael was the guest this past Sunday. He was invited to bring the message during worship and then speak about to FUM’s mission work in Belize, specifically, along with some more general information about connecting with other Friends in North America.
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Our visits to the farm each year, on our “Living Letters” trips or to volunteer during the olive harvest, are inspirational and demonstrate what real Christian faith and patience look like. It probably won’t keep me from planting too early in North Carolina, but in the larger scheme of things, it helps me lean into “long hope” when I despair about the situation in the world.
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Mama, I no reach Roly Poly. You help me? In Aristotelian ethics, a virtue sits at the golden mean between two vices. Take courage, for example. We tend to think of courage as the end goal, evaluating ourselves on how more or less courageous we are. Aristotle, on the other hand, sees a spectrum from cowardice to recklessness with courage balanced in the middle. The goal is not to max out the virtue but rather to have the proper amount of forward drive: not shying away from hard and scary things, and also not taking unnecessary risks. The same is true of mercy. Too much and too little are both bad. Too little is hard-heartedness, which I find hard to imagine. I hope my heart is always a soft place for Gardenia to land.
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Earlham School of Religion student Francoise Dutil writes about finding Quakerism, and then seminary, through the leading of the Spirit. Part 2.
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Throughout our history, the people known as Friends (or Quakers) keep rediscovering an essential and enduring truth: There is one who speaks to our most basic needs and most significant hopes—Christ Jesus the Lord. Both individually and communally, we are learning to know and follow the Voice that guides us in the way we should go. Together, we seek to understand and obey that truth which sets us free. As a people, we share in the experience of that powerful life which makes all things new. Maybe you are searching for an authentic and transforming faith and community to call home—if so, come in and join us as we seek to know and follow Christ.
Friends United Meeting commits itself to energize and equip Friends through the power of the Holy Spirit to gather people into fellowships where Jesus Christ is known, loved, and obeyed as Teacher and Lord.
