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2008 Issue #1 (.pdf format)

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In This Issue

Long Distance Calling 4
  Margaret Slavin
Weatherwait 4
  Beverly Shepard
The Difference Between Us 5
  Erin McDougall
Please Help Implement CnR 7
  Marilyn Manzer
A Covered Meeting 8
  Lucie Lemieux
Quaker Book Service Advertisment 9
Book Review: 10
  Fiona McMurran
Book Review 11
  Gordon McClure
What Do You Mean, ‘Quaker-ism’? 12
  Ellen Pye
Canadian Friends Historical Association 13
Accompanying African Peace Makers 14
  Gianne Broughton
CFSC Internship in Evolution 16
  Jane Orion Smith
CFSC As Seen by Two New Insiders 17
  Sheila Havard and Michael Patzold
Notice of Young Friends Conference 18
Book Review 18
  Arnold Ranneris
Lesotho Young Friends 19
  Amy Jean Singleton-Polster
Greening CYM 21
  Beverly Shepard
Duncan W G Earth Charter Initiative 21
  E. Daisy Anderson
Walking for the Earth 22
  Danna Griffith
The Day the Pope Came to Meeting 23
  Bert Horwood
These Are a Few of my Favourite Sins 24
  Rick Juliusson
Not a Sin 25
  Laureen van Lierop
Gluttony 26
  Bert Horwood
Canadian Friend Ad Rate Card 27
Genetics and Bio -Technologies 28
  Paul Duchastel
Unprogrammed Flowers 29
  Roger Davies
Trillium 29
  Beverly Shepard
CYM National Listeners 30
Letter 30
  Jaya Karsemeyer
Answers to last issue’s puzzles 31
Advertisements 31


2008 Issue #2 - Protest and Truth Telling (.pdf format)

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In This Issue

Always Unchanged, Ever Changing 4
   Beverly Shepard
“Family Camp Kaleidoscope” 5
   Beverly Shepard
Resting in God’s Hands at Camp NeeKauNis 5
   John Lavin
Reflections: FWCC Triennial 2007 6
   Virginia Dawson and Rick McCucheon
“For what it’s worth”...Montebello and Me 7
   Fiona McMurran
Truth and Protest 10
   Muriel Sibley
Book Review 10
   Dick Preston
“Alternatives to Violence” Workshops in Uganda 11
   Sheila Havard
A Critical Moment - How to support War Resisters 12
Some Messages About Protest and Truth Telling ,
From a conversation with Jack Ross 13
   Linda Hill
Protests Remembered 14
   Toni Bacon
Telling My Truth 15
   Alison Prentice
Editor’s Note 16
“The Rajah Quilt” 17
Cathy Miller
Book Review 18
   Catherine Verall
Consider an Action 19
   Muriel Sibley
I Know Protest; What is Truth? 20
   Lynne Phillips
Seeking the Truth 21
   Diana Mitchell
Book Review: 22
   Arnold Ranneris
Long Distance Calling 23
   Margaret Slavin
“Of All The Songs” 23
   Bill Curry
Advertisements 26
Around the Family 24 & 27


2008 Issue #3 - Compassion (.pdf format)

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In This Issue

Editorial 2
Come Passion 4
   Diana Mitchell
Speaking Truth to Empower 4
   Daisy E. Anderson
Book Review 5
   Arnold Ranneris
Lessons in Sharing 6
   Jesse Husk
Gifts 7
   Bill McMechan
Compassion/Companion 7
   Janine Gagnier
The Golden Rule 8
   Diana Mitchell
Supporting Ageing Members of our Meeting 8
   Carol Leigh Wehking
From My Heart to Your Heart... 10
   Pashta MaryMoon
Lack of Forgiveness Can Affect Our Health 11
   Sheryl Walter
What’s Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba...” 12
   Fiona McMurran
Book Review 13
   Bimal Thambyah
Everywhere I went ...Dante” 13
   Carole Langille
Long Distance Calling 14
   Margaret Slavin
Questions of Survival 14
   George Sanders
Excerpt from story... 15
   Michael Phillips
“...Endangered bird’s Prairie...” 15
   CBC News
I Shall Pass Though This World But Once 16
   Stephen de Grellet
The Prairie Ornithologist’s Lecture ... 16
   Roger Davies
Greening CYM: Does it Matter? 17
   Beverly Shepard
FWCC Notice 18
Com “cat” sion 18
   Janine Gagnier
Compassion for a Cat 19
   Edith Miller
C’nR Report 20
   Marilyn Manzer and Susan Stevenson
Highlights of Western Half Yearly Meeting 21
   Bob McInnes and Linda Hill
Report from the Quaker Archives 22
   Jane Zavitz-Bond
Seventy Years Ago in The Canadian Friend 22
   Kyle Joliffe
Around the Family 24
Advertisements 25
Photo spread of WHYM 26/27


2008 Issue #4 - Reflections on CYM (.pdf format)

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In This Issue
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Cover 1
Editorial 2
Canadian Yearly Meeting Epistle 2008 4
UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People 5
First Time at CYM
  Rosemary Meier 6
Life of the Programme Committee
  Margaret Overington 6-7
Thoughts From the Clerk
  Dale Dewar 8
First Time at the Other Side of the Table
  Anne Mitchell 9
A Vignette of Meetings with the Microphone
  Bill Curry 9
Reflections on my First CYM
  Robert Kirchner 10
Key Lessons
  Bert Horwood 11
The Australia Project: Implications for CYM
  Susan and David Stevenson 12
Ecology at CYM
  Arnold Ranneris 13
WhaleWatching
  Jay Cowsill 14
Vignette on the Way
  Bill Curry 14
Only the Earth and the Sky - A Song
  David Greenfield 15
John Woolman and the Scriptures
  Jane Zavitz-Bond 16
Bible / Quaker Study
  Arnold Ranneris 17
The Quaker Spirit, FUM and Us
  David Greenfield 18
Does CYM Belong in Friends United Meeting?
  Gale Wills 19
Reflections on FUM
  Thomas Mathieson 20
Reflections on CYM Gathering
  Sabre Peil 21
CYM Ecumenical Interfiath Report
  Bill Curry & Keith Maddock 22
Conflict in Meetings
  Merdith Egan and Jon Karsemeyer 23
Vignette - Away
  Bill Curry 24
Youth Program Epistle 25
Letter from the General Secretary FGC
  Bruce Brichard 26
Epistle from Young Friends 27
Reflection on CYM
  Peter Stevenson 27-28
Footnotes from the Canadian Quaker Archives
  Jane Zavitz-Bond 29
Around the Family 30
Last Word
  Lesley Robertson 31
Quaker Book Service 31


2008 Issue #5 - Experience of Spirit in Our Lives,
Encouraging Faithful Diversity, Quaker Roots (.pdf format)

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In This Issue

Cover 1
Editorial 2
Ministry and Worship
Helen Hole 4
Experience of Spirit in My Life
Kitty Dunn 4
Following a Call
Signy Fridriksson 5
Encouraging Faithful Diversity
Kirsten Ebsen 6
Quakers talk about Christian Roots
Beverly Shepard 8
Christ-Present vs Christianity 10
Solar Being
Jon Karsmeyer 11
Report from CYM’s Representative to FUM
Signy Fridriksson 12
A Saint, His Chickens, and a Miracle
Robert Nunn 14
Lane Changes
Gina Bennett 15
Yearning
Michael Phillips 16
What We Learn to See
Joseph Fasciani 18
Growing the Blessed Community
Carol Dixon and Wesley Glebe 19
Notice for Pen Pals 19
My Experience at CYM
Amie Trofymow 20
Program Committee’s Quest for an Ontario Site
Carol Bradley 21
These Things I Have Learned
Diana Mitchell 22
Around the Family 23
Advertisements 24
Advanced Inclusive Leadership Training 26
Janet Lehde
Notice of Submission Dates for 2009 28

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