Stumbling blocks to stepping stones

A way of extending the spiritual autobiography project I have been engaged in for over 40 years and exploring where Quakers and my Inward Teacher have taken and are taking me.

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

A way forward

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In the Library. Thomas Pole. 1806 I have been giving some thought to what effect Britain Yearly Meeting 2023 has had on me. I have been go...

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Friday, May 27, 2022

No More Quaker Heroes - or Villains

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A Book of Quaker Saints by Lucy V. Hodgkin illustrated by F. Cayley-Robinson A Yearly Meeting preparation session on 'Uncomfortab...

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Sunday, January 09, 2022

Here I go again!

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Woman at a window. Jacobus Vrel. 1654 In April last year I decided to try to resurrect this blog . I had good intentions but I only managed ...

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Robert and Mary Jane Catlin Davidson - Quaker missionaries to China

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China missionaries on the Yangtze river. Quaker Tapestry panel B7, Service Overseas. Robert Davidson was born in 1864, the eldest of the s...

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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Waste Not, Want Not

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This weekend I am spending time at the annual conference of QUIP (Quakers Uniting in Publications) as I have often done in the past. It is ...

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Gil S: Skipton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom; I am a retired librarian who writes and reads a lot and sometimes needs to make things. As a Quaker I am continuing to work on my spiritual autobiography project. In 2010 I started work on a biography of the Quaker travelling minister Catherine Payton Phillips 1727-1794.

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