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FUM Field Staff Updates

Posted on 6 November 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

Please continue to pray for all our field staff during this holiday season as they are separated from their loved ones while serving Friends in their work and ministries with Friends United Meeting. News from Joyce Ajlouny (Ramallah Friends School) It has been a month full of joys as the new school year began. We were blessed with 12 new…

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FUM News in Brief

Posted on 6 November 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

FUM General Board Hopes for 40 Days During roll call at the October meeting of the Friends United Meeting General Board, representatives were asked to state what hopes they had for the 40 Days of Prayer. Here are some of their responses. Do any of them resonate with your hopes? • I hope we find how to be the action…

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Spreading the Word

Posted on 6 November 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By Micah Bales – Interim Communications and Web Specialist Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your…

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Out of My Mind

Posted on 6 November 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By Colin Saxton – General Secretary During a recent meeting for worship, one of the most dangerous songs in the history of Christian hymnody began echoing inside my head… Take my life and let it be consecrated, Lord to thee. Take my moments and my days — let them flow in ceaseless praise. Oh, it starts out sweetly enough, a…

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Meanderings and Musings

Posted on 6 November 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By Annie Glen – Interim Communications Manager/Editor Part of my duties as editor is to receive various books from other publishing houses for review. I take those books and offer them to the panel of reviewers to have them write their impressions. Every once in a while there is a book that speaks to me immediately and I cannot give…

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Meanderings and Musings

Posted on 24 September 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By Annie Glen – Interim Communications Manager/Editor It was during a very stressful time that I received the mug that you see in the picture below. At that time, my prayer and facial expression were pretty much the same as what is painted on its surface: eyes crossed, mouth in a grimace while muttering the words, “Now what?” It seems…

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Perspectives: Why Silent Worship is Not Dying Soon

Posted on 24 September 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By Samuel Wanjala In Kenya today, there has arisen a generation that just loves noise. For the sake of the reader, I define noise as any unorganized sound that is unpleasing to the ear. To illustrate what I mean think of an example of where you enter a church the size of a classroom, but it is fitted with four…

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The Intolerance of Tolerance

Posted on 24 September 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By D. A. Carson William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2012, 186 pp., $24 Carson, a professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, outlines and discusses changes in the nature of tolerance from pre-Christian Greece to modern Western societies. He demonstrates that every culture combines tolerance and intoler­ance, but notes that few have made toler­ance such…

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John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire

Posted on 24 September 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By Geoffrey Plank Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 320 pp.,$39.95 Existing studies of John Woolman, his beliefs, and his anti-slavery ministry focus mainly on the man and his closest associ­ates. Now, however, Geoffrey Plank has also provided Friends with an analysis of the culture which shaped Woolman and his associates, and which they, in turn, influenced. Their world was…

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Ending Cycles of Violence: Kenyan Quaker Peacemaking Response after the 2007 Election

Posted on 24 September 2012 by micah | 0 Comments

By Judy Lumb Producciones de la Hamaca, year?, 131 pp., $12 In 2008 when the post-election violence was happening in Kenya, I was very concerned for the Friends I had made, FUM’s field staff, as well as the nation itself. But, I really didn’t understand the whole picture. I didn’t understand tribalism or how it could possibly have escalated to…

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