On Sunday, April 27, Robin Mohr will be in Greensboro, North Carolina. This day marks the end of the annual meetings of both Quakers United in Publishing and the Representative Body of North Carolina Yearly Meeting (Conservative), which both happen to be in Greensboro this year. She would love to have dinner with anyone else interested in convergent Friends. You can read more about her trip and send her an email via her blog.
EDIT [Jan 30] - Thank you everyone for the support the cost is covered for the year!Our domain is up for renewal and I was wondering if anyone wanted to pitch in a buck or two to help cover it this year? It’s $10 a year and I don’t mind paying for most it but a little help is nice as well. Let me know if you’d like to chip in. We can do it through pay-pal.
Robin recently announced a convergent Friends get together in Indiana this April, if you’re going to be there for FWCC you should check it out.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check out QuakerQuaker.org. Martin Kelley, the mastermind behind the project, has updated the site, and added some great new features to the global Quaker blogging community.
Robin and Wess cowrote an article in this month’s Friends Journal on convergent Friends. It’s called From the ‘Kitchen’ to the ‘Parlor.’ Be sure to check it out.
From Robin: We finally have a location for the next convergent Friends dinner party on August 4, 2007! We’ll meet at the home of a Friend in Torrance (for more info please contact us). I expect that it will start around 5:00. Check here for further updates. Keep reading →
I’ve updated our resource page and our box.net widget (in the right sidebar) both contain links to downloadable resources for Convergent Friends stuff.
The one I am most excited about is Rachel Stacy’s fresh-off-the-press “Convergent Friends: An Introduction.” She offers some history, some theology and brings up some possible challenges to the cF conversation. She’s done a fantastic job, and included in it is a bibliography mainly of web-links for further reading.
Also - if you consider, or call yourself a convergent Friend and would like to be added to the blogroll here please leave a comment below so we can add you.
For a listing of resources you can visit box.net directly or check out the widget to the right.
David Male, convergent Friend (who doesn’t have a blog), and member of Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) has written about his encounter with Jesus. It’s a good story to read and like David, it is provocative.
In it he says,
After an experience at Ohio Yearly Meeting in which an old Quaker lady told me that she had stopped worrying about her sin and learned to “rest in the love of Jesus and let his blood wash away [her] sin,” the scales fell from my eyes. I was truly born again into a new heaven and a new earth in which all creation had a new smell. Before, I had come to believe that God had the power to raise Jesus from the dead. Now, I knew that he intended to use that power to restore all creation, beginning with me. It was no longer about me struggling to be the best person I could be so I could hopefully earn the love of God or at least feel better about being imperfect. It was all about the perfect love of God beginning to transform me into the child of God I was always meant to be.
Visit the Conservative Friends website for the rest of the article.
I purchased the domain convergentfriends.org a while back - it’s now ready and working.
I’ve begun to compile an about page - nothing too intense yet, something to help get the basic idea. If you’d like to be in charge of having a much more documented account please let us know.
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