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Learning to love and accept “Quatheists” (Nontheist Friends) at Powell House
Posted by Rik Panganiban on Jan 09 2009 | Tagged as: Blog Posts, Blogroll, Events, History, Personal Journeys, Republished, Stories and Poems
For three days I have been at the beautiful Powell House Quaker retreat center, up in Old Chatham, New York. I have been attending a workshop on “nontheist Quakers” led by Robin Alpern and Zach Alexander with about 16 other Quakers from around the northeast area.
A poem
Posted by Zach Alexander on Nov 22 2008 | Tagged as: Stories and Poems
In the Secular Night
In the secular night you wander around
alone in your house. It’s two-thirty.
Everyone has deserted you,
or this is your story;
you remember it from being sixteen,
when the others were out somewhere, having a good time,
or so you suspected,
and you had to baby-sit. [...]
A Children’s Story of People and the Light
Posted by Os Cresson on Oct 19 2005 | Tagged as: Stories and Poems
Not long ago in a place not far from here, there were many people living together but they went into different little buildings to worship. These buildings were quite close together and each one had its own door to go in by. In each of the houses of worship there was a wonderful light mounted [...]