Spark, May 2017 - The Powerful Practice of Discernment
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Contents
The Powerful Practice of Discernment
- Discerning Direction with Dunca, by Mary Pugh Clark, Montclair Monthly Meeting
- Resources for Discernment with Kids, by Melinda Wenner Bradley, NYYM Children and Youth Field Secretary
- The Practice of Discernment, by Christopher Sammond, General Secretary of NYYM
- Meeting for Discernment at Poplar Ridge, by Caroline Lane, Co-clerk of Steering Committee for Meetings of Discernment
- Queries, by Peter Phillips, Cornwall Monthly Meeting
Other Articles
- Minute of Support for Immigrants and Refugees, Hamilton Monthly Meeting
- Monthly Meeting Project Update, by Melinda Wenner Bradley, NYYM Children and Youth Feild Secretary
- A Letter from the Clerk, by Lucinda Antrim, Clerk of NYYM
- Quaker Family Meetups, by Melinda Wenner Bradley, NYYM Children and Youth Feild Secretary
- Quaker Outside the Lines, by Emily Provance, Fifteenth St. Meeting
- AVP in El Salvador, by Shirley Way, Ithaca Meeting
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