From Eileen Kinch:

As fol­low­ers of Christ, we have been com­mand­ed to seek first the King­dom of God. Sim­plic­i­ty is set­ting aside any­thing that gets in the way of seek­ing the King­dom. The Book of Dis­ci­pline of Ohio Year­ly Meet­ing states: ‘The call … is to aban­don those things that clut­ter [our lives] and to press toward the goal unham­pered. This is true simplicity.’

Five things Fri­day roundup: Quak­er reflec­tions on sim­plic­i­ty | Anabap­tist World 

Men­non­ites and Friends (Quak­ers) are dif­fer­ent groups with dif­fer­ent cul­tur­al and the­o­log­i­cal his­to­ries. Yet these groups have some…

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As the pho­to cred­it states, this was one of my pic­tures – way back from the 2009 Con­ser­v­a­tive Gath­er­ing at the Lam­peter Meet­ing­house near Lan­cast­er, Pa.