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		<title>Simplicity, approved May 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jun 2006 01:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life is meant to be lived from a Center, a divine Center – a life of unhurried peace and power&#8230;.. It is serene. It takes not time, but it occupies all our time.&#8221; (Thomas Kelly, A Testament of Devotion, p.116, 124.) &#8220;Simplicity does not mean drabness or narrowness but is essentially positive, being the capacity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 FLGBTQC Midwinter Gathering in North Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 01:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Y’all come to the… 2007 FLGBTQC Midwinter Gathering in North Carolina! The planning committee for Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Concerns (FLGBTQC) is excited to announce its Midwinter 2007 Gathering has been scheduled for Friday, February 16, through Monday, February 19, 2007, at the beautiful Summit Retreat Center in Brown Summit, North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Witness to God&#8217;s Love: A Minute of Northern Yearly Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 02:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Witness to God&#8217;s Love: A Minute of Northern Yearly MeetingReligious Society of Friends (Quakers) May 29, 2006 Our experience confirms that all people are equal before God and equally loved by God. In witnessing the truth of God&#8217;s love to the wider community, we support full and equal inclusion of gays and lesbians in enjoying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2006 NYM Epistle: A Journey in Faith, Hope, and Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Rosholt, Wisconsin and the thirty-first annual session of Northern Yearly Meeting, where our theme is &#8220;Moving towards a Blessed Community.&#8221; This is our largest meeting yet, with more than three hundred souls present, about 120 of them children and youth. Under the ministry of Friends from New York and El Salvador Yearly Meetings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Yearly Meeting Structure and Function &#8212; APPROVED May, 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION APPROVED MAY, 2006 &#8220;Recognizing the joy and celebration experienced each time we gather together for fellowship and as a worshiping community, individual Friends and Friends within several monthly meetings in the Wisconsin-Minnesota area announce the birth of a new entity within the Religious Society of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Membership: APPROVED</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MEMBERSHIP RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING When we consider the criteria for membership, the two greatest factors are community and commitment. Not just a practical commitment, but a spiritual willingness to grow and learn, out of which practical commitment will evolve. (A group of Young English Friends, 1986 (BYM F&#38;P 10.25)) DEFINITION [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education: APPROVED</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDUCATION RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING &#8220;It is not too much to say that the two most important duties of our Society are to publish truth as we understand it and to educate our children in our faith and life.&#8221; London Yearly Meeting, Friends Education Council, 1949 The belief that there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preparing For Death: APPROVED</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2005 02:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PREPARING FOR DEATH RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) NORTHERN YEARLY MEETING &#8220;Death, then, being the Way and Condition of life, we cannot love to live, if we cannot bear to die&#8230;Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still&#8230;.&#8221; William Penn,1693 &#8220;God calls our loved ones, but [...]]]></description>
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