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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 3d

Want to hear about a deeply unpleasant but important public minister from 18th and 19th-century American Quakerism? Read on and listen to this short lecture on Joseph Hoag by Quaker historian Tom Hamm! www.friendsincubator.org/post/joseph-...

Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: Joseph Hoag and the Uncomfortable Gift

Joseph Hoag (1762–1846) was a remarkable Quaker minister whose life was filled with faith, courage, and a deep sense of divine calling. Born in Dutchess County, New York, to devoted Quaker parents, he...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 7d

From Zoom to back roads in Iowa, this season’s travel reminded me that prophetic imagination lives in small acts—shared meals, old friendships, and even stormy roads.

Read the full reflection 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/from-th...

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From the Road to What’s Next: Ministry, Books, and Fall Gatherings

This season has been full of travel, conversation, and discovery. Our Wednesday evening course on prophetic imagination just came to a close, and the final session lingered into a rich after-class con...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 14d

‪@cosmichope.bsky.social‬ and I think we've got a spark. Join us in exploring your experience of the divine and the curiosities of the ages through the fire of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Spinoza, biblical texts of terror, and process theology. What's that? www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/quak...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 22d

🌱 What if naming someone out loud was the most loving act of ministry you could offer?

In conversation, we reflect on intimacy, privacy & boundaries in Quaker public ministry. Queries included so you can join in.

📖 Read here: www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-sha...

The Shape of Quaker Ministry: Kody Hersh in Conversation on Intimacy, Privacy, and Love

When Kody and I made an appointment to talk this last time, our original plan was to discuss writing as a form of public ministry. In a previous entry in this series on living public ministers in our ...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · 22d

To God's ears.

Ben Wood /|\🔶️🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 22d

One day I'm going visit with @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social 🕯♥️

Ben Wood /|\🔶️🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · Jun 8

One of my favourite Church interiors has to be the Swedenborgian Church, San Francisco. The building's glorious Arts and Crafts style is positively Tolkienian before Tolkien. One has the feeling of entering an ancient forest. 🌿

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌿 “Truth for authority, not authority for truth.”

Tom Hamm joins us to lift up Lucretia Mott—abolitionist, reformer, Quaker public minister—whose stubborn hope still calls us to courage today.

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Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: Lucretia Mott

Sitting with Tom Hamm to talk about Lucretia Mott feels a bit like opening a window. Fresh air rushes in—plain speech, clear-eyed courage, and a stubborn hope that refuses to let injustice have the la...

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Philadelphia Yearly Meeting @quakerspym.bsky.social · Aug 14

Eileen Flanagan worships with Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting and holds a minute of religious service. Her new book Common Ground is part of that ministry. The book comes from years of climate justice organizing and public action brought forward from her faith.

Learn more: www.pym.org/efcommongrou...

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Pendle Hill @pendlehillusa.bsky.social · Sep 2

Clerking is back at Pendle Hill this fall!
Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long!
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Friends Center, Philadelphia @friendsctr.bsky.social · Jul 11

This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home.

If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.

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Friends Journal @friendsjournal.org · Sep 2

Common Ground is Quaker activist Eileen Flanagan's account of her experience in the climate justice movement, a collection of “lessons in resistance and solidarity” that Flanagan has picked up along the way in her life-changing journey to protect the earth.

REVIEWED: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation

"Lessons in resistance and solidarity” learned over the course of Eileen Flanagan's life-changing journey to protect the earth.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Sep 3

What does it really mean to be called into Quaker public ministry?

Our latest blog circles this urgent, beautiful question—while celebrating the surge of interest in our new fellowship. Spirit is moving, and the hunger is real. 🌱🔥

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Too Long; Didn't Read: Who Are Public Ministers? A Review of The Past Two Months!

It's been two months since our last "Too Long; Didn't Read" update on our blog activity at the Friends Incubator. During this time our blog has circled around one urgent and beautiful question: What d...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Aug 25

Last week we cracked open Walter Brueggemann’s Prophetic Imagination with Jim Webner—grief + hope, lament + amazement, a word for now.

Didn’t make it? No worries. Join us Wed, Aug 27 @ 7pm ET. Free, donations very welcome 🌱

📖 Recap: tinyurl.com/59j9mwuv
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yckeyj4m

The Prophet in Public Ministry: Exercising the Prophetic Imagination in Troubled Times | Friends Incubator for Public Ministry

What can public ministers learn from the "prophetic imagination" and how do we apply lessons gleaned from biblical prophets to our labors right now? Join Jim Webner from August 20th until September 17...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Aug 20

See you tonight!!

If you want to come, registration is required, free (donations welcome) and available on our website: friendsincubator.org.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Aug 20

🌟 Ministry takes many shapes. In convo w/ Windy Cooler, Kody Hersh lifts up the gifts of Peterson Toscano, Amanda Kemp, eppchez yo-sí yes & Cai Quirk—artists whose Spirit-led creativity is ministry rooted in love.

💜 The gifts we give each other help us live into transformation.

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Ministry Beyond Shape: Kody Hersh on Love, Art, and Faithful Creativity

In late July, Public Minister Kody Hersh joined me in a Zoom interview we had planned for a while. He's joining me in a series of testimonies about our friends in ministry who have influenced and insp...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Aug 13

Dive into the uncompromising clarity of 18th‑century Quaker John Woolman. He paid enslaved people for their labor, shunned sugar & luxury, confronted comfort with complicity, and practiced "near sympathy" with all. Unsettling, urgent, necessary. tinyurl.com/yk6am6r6

#Quaker #Ministry

Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: John Woolman, Uncomfortable Truths, and the Urgent Work of Quaker Justice Today

“It’s sort of with fear and trembling I take up John Woolman... If ever an American Quaker qualified as a saint, it would be Woolman.” —Tom HammIt’s not every day that a Quaker historian calls someone...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Aug 11

The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Aug 6

What does it really mean to carry a concern? Will you survive it?

🕊️ Angela Hopkins speaks plainly about the cost of public ministry—& the toll on ministers of color.

💬 “That is faithfulness… not that it looks like Rembrandt made it.”

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#Quakers #PublicMinistry

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Jul 30

🔥 “It was something that couldn't not happen.” ross brubeck felt the call to public ministry like fire—explosive, undeniable. So he walked. From Brooklyn to D.C. A revival in motion.

Read a public ministry story from the 2025 Quaker Walk to Washington: tinyurl.com/29ume5ac

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Jul 21

Quaker public minister? Apply for a fellowship! www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-min...

The Ministry Fellowship Has Opened—Because We’ve All Been Listening

A Friendly Invitation to a Braver QuakerismFriends, something beautiful is happening.After years of conversation, spiritual listening, careful discernment, bold experimentation, and not a small amount...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Jul 20

✨ The Friends Incubator Fellowship for Public Ministry is now OPEN for applications! 🌿

Are you called to public ministry—or supporting someone who is? This 2-year journey offers real support for ministers, elders & meetings.

Apply now 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/fellowship
#Quaker #PublicMinistry 🐦‍⬛

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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · Jul 9

The third of @woodbrooke.bsky.social's 2025 Eva Koch Scholar presentations, 'Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation' given by our Justice and Peace Secretary Hezron Masitsa, is now available to watch online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uK4...

Eva Koch 2025 Part 3 Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Jul 15

✨ The Courage to Be Faithful Anyway: 19th-c. DIVORCED Quaker minister Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader preached boldly and lived prophetically. Her story still speaks, as Tom Hamm shows us in the second in our series on #Quaker #PublicMinistry. 🕊️ Read more: tinyurl.com/4am65jv6 #FriendsIncubator

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Jul 15

📣 Aug 20–Sept 17: What can Quaker public ministers learn from the “prophetic imagination”? Join Jim Webner for a 5-week drop-in course. Hosted by Friends Incubator. www.friendsincubator.org/event-list 🕊️ #Quaker

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Jul 7

💸 What does your Quaker meeting spend money on?

Tracy Booth shares how the Lyman Fund has backed 660+ leadings—without fundraising—by investing in faithfulness, not outcomes.

🕊️ Money can be ministry. Clearness is care. Legacy starts small.

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#Quaker #Ministry

Ministry, Money, and Miracles: What the Lyman Fund Can Teach Us About Spirit-Led Giving

What does your meeting spend money on? Does ministry cost...money?When Tracy Booth (New England Yearly and Baltimore Yearly) joined me for a conversation about the small ministry grant maker, Lyman Fu...

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Windy Cooler @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social · Jul 1

George Fox wasn’t boring (Tom Hamm, our lecturer, isn't boring either!!)—and neither is the radical heart of Quaker public ministry. Trust the Spirit, speak boldly, and live faithfully. tinyurl.com/4nkwzsy6

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Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers Series: George Fox

George Fox Was Not Boring: Lessons in Public Ministry from a Founder of QuakerismWhen people think of George Fox, they often picture the founder of a 17th-century religious movement that eventually se...

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