Just as Margaret Chase Smith’s speech to the Senate didn’t initially take down McCarthy, it appeared that our marches and signs, postcard writing, calls, and getting out the vote would have no effect on MAGA. Then, it did. The recent election showed us it did.
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Pasto Quakers Worship Group attends a gathering for peace in Pasto, Colombia
What am I Putting out into the world?
I believe we are all connected — our actions (intentions, thoughts), however small, affect others. My vitriol, repulsion, or hatred befoul my mood, my relationships, and my community. In the same way, kindness, forbearance, generosity and forgiveness bring down the temperature in a world that is heating up.
The Inner Teacher
Fox discovered that this Inner Teacher was more easily accessed when people gather in community. While we gather in community, we are free to think our own thoughts, receive our own insights and sometimes, share insights from our Inner Teacher as vocal ministry with those gathered. How do we know when a message is from this Inner Teacher and not simply our thoughts, or ego wanting to be heard?
Buffalo Quakers and the Network of Religious Communities
What forms do intentional/religious communities take? What is the intention to the gathering? Do we gather for community or for service? These kinds of questions have and will be continually asked and acted upon. A look at four of the intentional/religious communities that gather at 1272 Delaware can perhaps shine a light upon some of these questions.