This post on the Friends Life Care eMeetinghouse blog continues my discussion of the Quaker SPICES.  SPICES is the acronym for the Quaker testimonies: simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, stewardship.

In this entry, I will focus on Equality.  Although it is out of order with the acronym, it seemed quite appropriate as January is the month with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.  And again this year, Friends Life Care is recognizing and commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with an internal event.  As I am Latina and therefore in the Hispanic minority, the…

There are over 300,000 Quakers around the world.  The highest concentration is in Africa.  Although it can be challenging to get an exact count among all the branches, it is estimated that there are around 75,000 Quakers in the United States. This is the Quaker Community and brings to life an important Quaker value – the “C” of the SPICES “Community.”

 
Quakers Around the World
A map developed by the Friends World Committee for Consultation shows concentrations of Quaker Communities across the world. It includes the various branches of Quakerism.  These branche…

In this post, I continue to feature important Quaker values called the SPICES.  SPICES is an acronym for Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality and Stewardship.
A Life Lived with Honesty
In Quakerism and for me, integrity means a life lived with honesty.  It requires following a path of upright ethics, unbending principles as well as truth seeking and being.  When we are transparent with pure motives rather, than a  personal agenda, then and only then can we have true integrity.

This value is always so incredibly important; and could especially use a boo…

Friends Life Care Partners joined the Brighten A Day nonprofit organization to send cards filled with hope, joy, and inspiration to individuals experiencing loneliness and isolation.

We are delighted to report that Friends Life Care Partners staff completed over 400 cards and pieces of handmade artwork to send to Brighten A Day!

This initiative to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of service was spearheaded by Friends Life Care’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force with help from other project supporters. The task force is also working to continue our par…

In the January post for Friends Talk, I focused on the Quaker testimony of Equality.  This seemed to be a good fit with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day  which Friends Life Care commemorated with an organization-wide gathering.  And so, even though it was out of order with the Quaker acronym SPICES (Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, Stewardship), it seemed especially timely.  Now I am back in order with this post on Peace.

In learning about this important value of Quakerism,  I found that Peace had a meaning strongly connected to social justice and was …