Report from (Xenia and) Jamestown
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Appointed Meetings
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A Friend said simply, “I think Christ is calling (on this matter) but I’m not listening.” This led to a discussion of why various groups of people don’t listen.
Report from Dayton
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Appointed Meetings
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A Friend observed, “We’re talking about changing human nature. It’s not an easy task.”
Incident at Covington
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Relating to Creation
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I visualized poor people, unemployed people lacking my own resources, passing through the field where I was standing in the sunset. Unlike me, they might not have had money for a restaurant meal or a motel room. The corn I was looking at would have been useless to them. Game would have been hard to come by. This was a rich land I was looking at, and yet it would be barren to the poor.
Report from Englewood
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Appointed Meetings
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A Friend said, “Our mission as Friends is to seek truth. I wonder what is true about topics like global warming. I feel Jesus is crying for those who are pulled right and left, trying to understand what is truth. On the Net we can find things that support any number of opinions.”
Report from Richmond
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Appointed Meetings
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…There were Indiana meetings very divided about how fast to move on the slavery issue. “When you’re living history, it’s messy. When something’s divisive, that doesn’t mean God isn’t in it.”
Ministry and the “Word”
Marshall Massey
in Environmental Theology, Travel in the Ministry
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They are at odds with the very thing to which they are most constantly connected!
In Company to Richmond
We could see the clouds roiling and growing, and the veils of rain forming in the distance and marching across the land, as the winds picked up and tore at the trees around us. Soon we could pick out one area of rain upwind of us that seemed destined to overtake us — and I was fascinated by the way our connectedness with the landscape around us seemed to deepen as our concern about that approaching rain intensified!
Report from Cadiz
Marshall Massey
in A Long Listen, Appointed Meetings
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A Friend cited the first two chapters of the book of Ezekiel, in which God says to the prophet, “I’m sending you to a rebellious people who will not listen.” Looking at our numbers, the Friend said, there’s probably not enough of us (Friends) to make a big difference in the world. But Ezekiel goes on to say that whether or not the rebellious people listen is not the prophet’s concern. Sometimes we have to concentrate on being faithful, not on being successful.”