Early Quakers (1660) wrote this about war:
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Early Quakers (1660) wrote this about war:
A lovely day for paddling, when the rain stopped!
Christianity Is a Dangerous Faith www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...
Truth for authority, not authority for truth.
β Lucretia Mott, 1871β¨Quaker social reformer
Inform yourself on a bill which would radically reduce Americansβ right to vote! Watch this:
www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...
This was read out today by the clerk at Glasgow Quaker Meeting - an epistle from the Quakers in Minnesota about whatβs happening to vulnerable people under the Trump regime - the solidarity and spirituality to which theyβre contributing.
Iβm holding in the Light AFSC Quaker Engagement's event, βLove as Action: Resisting Authoritarianismβ - sign up now! www.mobilize.us/afsc/event/8...
Cluster munitions indiscriminately harm and kill civilians.
Yet the Trump administration is planning to replenish the U.S. arsenal of these weapons with a major new purchase from Israel.
We joined 35 partners urging Congress to oppose the purchase of these immoral weapons β¬οΈ
I gave a Bible Study for a church planting and no one came.
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Donald Trump wants ten billion dollars from the government he runs.
And his unmanly obedient MAGA groupies get real quiet.
Pls read, subscribe & share:
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βThe pastorsβ group that Iβm in, we got together, and we agreed that if violence breaks out in Springfield, we have a duty to go right to the front of it and to call for peace,β said Rev. Ruby.
In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
Aloha Barbara! I really enjoyed your article. So many great Quakers quotes! Iβm a Quaker Theist, who calls God many names: Truth, Beauty, the Author of Healing, Love, Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, Light, Wisdom, Spiritual Director, and more. The One I follow is vast and expansive.
HauΚ»oli Aloha PΕΚ»alima!
Happy Aloha Friday!
Today, the world crosses a dangerous threshold. The last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between the U.S. and Russia has been allowed to lapse.
The expiration of New START does not make a new nuclear arms race inevitable β but it makes the path toward one far easier and more dangerous.
Kailua Bay!
Every accusation is a confession.
βTruth will not lose ground by being tried.β Isaac Penington wrote these words in a letter to a friend in 1670, encouraging her that truth will always prevail, saying, βDarkness is afraid of the light, because it has a secret sense that it cannot stand before it.β
- DailyQuaker.com
We saw whales and dolphins when we were paddling a Hawaiian outrigger canoe yesterday! I took a photo of the dolphins.
Sunrise today on the water. See the canoe of paddlers on the left?
There is βthat of Godβ in everyone.
There is that near you which will guide you. O! Hearken unto it, and be sure ye keep to it.
β Isaac Penington, 1678β¨Quaker mystic
Three coffins wrapped in Danish flags are carried by 4-6 soldiers each; a cargo aircraft is in the background
I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
We must learn to live together as brothers (and sisters) or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
- John Muir
French lamb shank, cheese polenta and asparagus! Very satisfying.
Kailua Beach this morning! In a couple of hours, we went out canoe paddling at Lanikai. It became a huge squall with rain, high winds and serious current/waves. βIf you donβt like the weather here, just wait a few hours.β The weather can be like a yo-yo.
Mar-a-Lago, not a secure facility. These are not real professionals.
However quietly we speak, the Light is so near that the Light will hear us: we need no wings to go in search of the Light, but only to find a place where we can be alone and look upon the Light present within us. (Adapted)
- Teresa of Avila
The image includes the quotation below on a light green background, along with a picture of "The Quaker Faith" book cover: β¦in the early Quaker understanding of the true faith, all authentic knowledge of God comes directly by revelation rather than via human authorities or secondary sources. The Holy Spirit is universally available, enabling everyone to enjoy an intimate and inward relationship with God, where the divine law is written upon the heart, and Christ teaches his people himself. Communal worship and personal spiritual practice are therefore rooted in a discipline of listening for and hearing Godβs voice and obeying the divine command. The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth, p.27.
...in the early Quaker understanding of the true faith, all authentic knowledge of God comes directly by revelation rather than via human authorities or secondary sources. The Holy Spirit is universally available, enabling everyone to enjoy an intimate and inward relationship with God...
