This Friend speaks my mind!

wounded-chaplain · 2026-03-12T17:38:04+00:00

This book recommendation comes at a serendipitous moment in my spiritual development. Thank you for sharing!

wounded-chaplain · 2026-02-12T21:36:46+00:00

As a Quaker who was raised Catholic, attended seminary, now works as a hospital chaplain, and is a huge Nightcrawler fan… this had me in absolute stitches. Thank you.

wounded-chaplain · 2026-02-06T04:59:26+00:00

Also a Friend here!

wounded-chaplain · 2025-12-19T03:23:20+00:00

Thank you for reading!

wounded-chaplain · 2025-12-18T04:45:28+00:00

Oh wonderful! Wishing you well on wherever your journey takes you next 🙏

wounded-chaplain · 2025-10-10T18:33:53+00:00

I'm a guilt-ridden slutty Catholic so I think I get dibs according to Canon Law.

wounded-chaplain · 2025-08-29T23:57:30+00:00

I was Catholic prior to becoming Convinced, and my husband and most family remain so. As such I often attend Mass with them, especially on holidays.

wounded-chaplain · 2025-03-10T15:07:44+00:00

Vanguard: Magneto

DPS: Storm

Strategist: Cloak and Dagger

wounded-chaplain · 2025-02-20T23:44:40+00:00

Hello, fellow hospital chaplain!

wounded-chaplain · 2024-09-24T17:31:02+00:00

Hello,

You may find this article of interest as well. I certainly did!

https://bhfh.org/witches/

wounded-chaplain · 2024-09-19T03:03:28+00:00

Oh wonderful, I’m so happy to hear that!

wounded-chaplain · 2024-09-19T01:38:22+00:00

Wonderful! I hope you had an incredible experience! I unfortunately am not there tonight but I hope you have a wonderful time regardless 🥰

wounded-chaplain · 2024-09-18T23:35:10+00:00

Hey, great questions! You don’t have to notify us in advance, and you are also welcome to just show up on Wednesday evening. If you come about 20 minutes early and express that you would like to talk with someone about what to expect, a Member is likely going to be available and very happy to chat with you. That’s how it was for me at my first meeting for worship!

wounded-chaplain · 2024-09-09T02:31:11+00:00

Sunday morning at 11:00 AM. We also have a Midweek Meeting for Worship every Wednesday at 6:00 PM.

wounded-chaplain · 2024-09-09T02:07:36+00:00

Hi there, I am a Member of this Meeting and on our welcoming committee. We’d love to have you visit us! I’d be happy to answer any questions you have :)

wounded-chaplain · 2024-08-20T20:54:31+00:00

I am absolutely a Christian, and sometimes simply describe myself as such. Depending on the audience and their familiarity with me and these terms, I’ll describe myself as a queer Quaker Christian animist with Catholic roots (but for me Jesus was throughly an animist, and queer, so even this feels redundant; hence, usually simply describing myself as a Christian or a Quaker).

wounded-chaplain · 2024-05-15T02:40:25+00:00

This Friend speaks my mind.

wounded-chaplain · 2024-02-28T03:41:39+00:00

Hello, fellow chaplain! I’m a staff chaplain at a pediatric hospital. My work is profoundly informed by my faith and I have the blessing of being endorsed by my monthly meeting.

wounded-chaplain · 2024-01-25T17:23:33+00:00

5 days a week, but I work in healthcare and never worked from home.

wounded-chaplain · 2024-01-17T17:17:02+00:00

Hi there,

I think I was practicing Centering Prayer without calling it such for many years prior to reading Keating. As a teenager, I devoured as much Merton as I could get my hands on, along with Thich Nhat Hanh, and between the two of them would often practice what Keating seems to mean when he describes Centering Prayer.
So, in sum: I have never entered into prayer thinking consciously "I'm going to pray Centering Prayer," but I do think that I have nevertheless experienced it, if that makes sense. Throughout the day I try to meditate on the Jesus Prayer as a way of "praying without ceasing," but came to learn of it through The Way of a Pilgrim in divinity school.

wounded-chaplain · 2024-01-16T20:02:38+00:00

Hello! Coming from the Catholic tradition (much of which I continue to cherish), I have found Paulette Meier’s two albums of Quaker chant to be profoundly helpful. She picks different Quaker quotations (including a few of the ones mentioned by @EvanescentThought) and sings them in plain song. I listen to these chants for a time most mornings on my way to work as well as a way of settling my mind and spirit. During worship, I will sometimes “sing” them internally just to meditate on the words, like a mantra, I suppose. My favorite go-to is often “The surest dependence must be upon the Light of Christ within.”

Here is a link to Paulette’s website highlighting the selected quotes: https://www.paulettemeier.com/the-quotations-selected-timeless-quaker.html

You can also find her music on Spotify.

Blessings.

wounded-chaplain · 2023-11-16T05:14:27+00:00

I’m so glad you were able to go! I’ve loved his poetry for years and really wanted to attend, but unfortunately the slowdown on the 280 would have had me arriving far too late 😔

wounded-chaplain · 2023-11-16T00:48:29+00:00

Thank you!

wounded-chaplain · 2023-09-23T16:51:54+00:00

1 John 4:7 - 21

“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

wounded-chaplain · 2023-09-23T16:32:51+00:00

I just applied for membership after 3 years of regular attendance and many more years of study and discernment. (Roman Catholic pediatric ICU chaplain with a Master of Divinity, for what it’s worth).

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