Windy Cooler
@goodquakerpirate.bsky.social
Embraced Quaker public minister and practical theologian with a concern for right relationship in the Religious Society of Friends from Sandy Spring Monthly (BYM). I am currently the convener of Friends Incubator for Public Ministry.
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Why are Quaker pirates...pirates? They just aaaaaaarrrrgh!
🌶️ Book talk with Jay Marshall & Windy Cooler on Spice Up Your Life: Reflections on the Testimonies
📅 Thu Nov 6, 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET
🎟️ Register: FriendsIncubator.org
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📅 Thu Nov 6, 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET
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October 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🌶️ Book talk with Jay Marshall & Windy Cooler on Spice Up Your Life: Reflections on the Testimonies
📅 Thu Nov 6, 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET
🎟️ Register: FriendsIncubator.org
📖 Get 25% off the book with registration 🕊️
📅 Thu Nov 6, 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET
🎟️ Register: FriendsIncubator.org
📖 Get 25% off the book with registration 🕊️
Reposted by Windy Cooler
Next Wednesday, I begin a new course (ably Eldered by @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social) for @woodbrooke.bsky.social on the life & #philosophy of the Early #Quaker Anne Conway. There's still time to sign up.
The Enchanted Christianity of Anne Conway - Woodbrooke
Conway’s life offers contemporary Friends a fascinating microcosm of the theological and existential problems that captivated religious radicals and
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October 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Next Wednesday, I begin a new course (ably Eldered by @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social) for @woodbrooke.bsky.social on the life & #philosophy of the Early #Quaker Anne Conway. There's still time to sign up.
✨ “When I hear stories of the ways others have experienced the Spirit at work, my faith is strengthened.”
Discernment isn’t a moment for Quaker public ministers. It’s a way of walking together. 🌿
👉 friendsincubator.org/post/guest-post-marcelle-martin-on-discernment
Discernment isn’t a moment for Quaker public ministers. It’s a way of walking together. 🌿
👉 friendsincubator.org/post/guest-post-marcelle-martin-on-discernment
Guest Post: Marcelle Martin On Discernment
Every so often we invite a Quaker public minister or elder to take over our weekly blog. This is one such week! We're so happy to be welcoming Marcelle Martin as this week's guest blogger in anticipat...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:20 PM
✨ “When I hear stories of the ways others have experienced the Spirit at work, my faith is strengthened.”
Discernment isn’t a moment for Quaker public ministers. It’s a way of walking together. 🌿
👉 friendsincubator.org/post/guest-post-marcelle-martin-on-discernment
Discernment isn’t a moment for Quaker public ministers. It’s a way of walking together. 🌿
👉 friendsincubator.org/post/guest-post-marcelle-martin-on-discernment
Want to hear about a deeply unpleasant but important public minister from 18th and 19th-century American Quakerism? Read on and listen to this short lecture on Joseph Hoag by Quaker historian Tom Hamm! www.friendsincubator.org/post/joseph-...
Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: Joseph Hoag and the Uncomfortable Gift
Joseph Hoag (1762–1846) was a remarkable Quaker minister whose life was filled with faith, courage, and a deep sense of divine calling. Born in Dutchess County, New York, to devoted Quaker parents, he...
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October 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Want to hear about a deeply unpleasant but important public minister from 18th and 19th-century American Quakerism? Read on and listen to this short lecture on Joseph Hoag by Quaker historian Tom Hamm! www.friendsincubator.org/post/joseph-...
From Zoom to back roads in Iowa, this season’s travel reminded me that prophetic imagination lives in small acts—shared meals, old friendships, and even stormy roads.
Read the full reflection 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/from-th...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #PropheticImagination
Read the full reflection 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/from-th...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #PropheticImagination
From the Road to What’s Next: Ministry, Books, and Fall Gatherings
This season has been full of travel, conversation, and discovery. Our Wednesday evening course on prophetic imagination just came to a close, and the final session lingered into a rich after-class con...
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October 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
From Zoom to back roads in Iowa, this season’s travel reminded me that prophetic imagination lives in small acts—shared meals, old friendships, and even stormy roads.
Read the full reflection 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/from-th...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #PropheticImagination
Read the full reflection 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/from-th...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #PropheticImagination
@cosmichope.bsky.social and I think we've got a spark. Join us in exploring your experience of the divine and the curiosities of the ages through the fire of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Spinoza, biblical texts of terror, and process theology. What's that? www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/quak...
September 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
@cosmichope.bsky.social and I think we've got a spark. Join us in exploring your experience of the divine and the curiosities of the ages through the fire of thinkers such as Kierkegaard, Spinoza, biblical texts of terror, and process theology. What's that? www.woodbrooke.org.uk/courses/quak...
🌱 What if naming someone out loud was the most loving act of ministry you could offer?
In conversation, we reflect on intimacy, privacy & boundaries in Quaker public ministry. Queries included so you can join in.
📖 Read here: www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-sha...
In conversation, we reflect on intimacy, privacy & boundaries in Quaker public ministry. Queries included so you can join in.
📖 Read here: www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-sha...
The Shape of Quaker Ministry: Kody Hersh in Conversation on Intimacy, Privacy, and Love
When Kody and I made an appointment to talk this last time, our original plan was to discuss writing as a form of public ministry. In a previous entry in this series on living public ministers in our ...
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September 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
🌱 What if naming someone out loud was the most loving act of ministry you could offer?
In conversation, we reflect on intimacy, privacy & boundaries in Quaker public ministry. Queries included so you can join in.
📖 Read here: www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-sha...
In conversation, we reflect on intimacy, privacy & boundaries in Quaker public ministry. Queries included so you can join in.
📖 Read here: www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-sha...
To God's ears.
One day I'm going visit with @goodquakerpirate.bsky.social 🕯♥️
One of my favourite Church interiors has to be the Swedenborgian Church, San Francisco. The building's glorious Arts and Crafts style is positively Tolkienian before Tolkien. One has the feeling of entering an ancient forest. 🌿
September 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
To God's ears.
🌿 “Truth for authority, not authority for truth.”
Tom Hamm joins us to lift up Lucretia Mott—abolitionist, reformer, Quaker public minister—whose stubborn hope still calls us to courage today.
Read the full piece ➡️ www.friendsincubator.org/post/tom-ham...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #LucretiaMott
Tom Hamm joins us to lift up Lucretia Mott—abolitionist, reformer, Quaker public minister—whose stubborn hope still calls us to courage today.
Read the full piece ➡️ www.friendsincubator.org/post/tom-ham...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #LucretiaMott
Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: Lucretia Mott
Sitting with Tom Hamm to talk about Lucretia Mott feels a bit like opening a window. Fresh air rushes in—plain speech, clear-eyed courage, and a stubborn hope that refuses to let injustice have the la...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🌿 “Truth for authority, not authority for truth.”
Tom Hamm joins us to lift up Lucretia Mott—abolitionist, reformer, Quaker public minister—whose stubborn hope still calls us to courage today.
Read the full piece ➡️ www.friendsincubator.org/post/tom-ham...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #LucretiaMott
Tom Hamm joins us to lift up Lucretia Mott—abolitionist, reformer, Quaker public minister—whose stubborn hope still calls us to courage today.
Read the full piece ➡️ www.friendsincubator.org/post/tom-ham...
#Quakers #PublicMinistry #LucretiaMott
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Eileen Flanagan worships with Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting and holds a minute of religious service. Her new book Common Ground is part of that ministry. The book comes from years of climate justice organizing and public action brought forward from her faith.
Learn more: www.pym.org/efcommongrou...
Learn more: www.pym.org/efcommongrou...
August 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Eileen Flanagan worships with Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting and holds a minute of religious service. Her new book Common Ground is part of that ministry. The book comes from years of climate justice organizing and public action brought forward from her faith.
Learn more: www.pym.org/efcommongrou...
Learn more: www.pym.org/efcommongrou...
Reposted by Windy Cooler
Clerking is back at Pendle Hill this fall!
Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long!
pendlehill.org/calendar/fri...
Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long!
pendlehill.org/calendar/fri...
September 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Clerking is back at Pendle Hill this fall!
Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long!
pendlehill.org/calendar/fri...
Join this popular on-campus workshop with Steve Mohlke and ,O for a deep-dive on liberatory clerking skills and principles. If you're thinking of joining, this program typically fills with a waitlist, so don't wait too long!
pendlehill.org/calendar/fri...
Reposted by Windy Cooler
This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home.
If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.
If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.
July 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This thread features the Quaker & non-Quaker nonprofits that call Friends Center home.
If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.
If your organization needs office space in Center City Philadelphia, check us out. We have some space available for small groups whose missions align with Quaker values.
Reposted by Windy Cooler
Common Ground is Quaker activist Eileen Flanagan's account of her experience in the climate justice movement, a collection of “lessons in resistance and solidarity” that Flanagan has picked up along the way in her life-changing journey to protect the earth.
REVIEWED: Common Ground: How the Crisis of the Earth Is Saving Us from Our Illusion of Separation
"Lessons in resistance and solidarity” learned over the course of Eileen Flanagan's life-changing journey to protect the earth.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Common Ground is Quaker activist Eileen Flanagan's account of her experience in the climate justice movement, a collection of “lessons in resistance and solidarity” that Flanagan has picked up along the way in her life-changing journey to protect the earth.
What does it really mean to be called into Quaker public ministry?
Our latest blog circles this urgent, beautiful question—while celebrating the surge of interest in our new fellowship. Spirit is moving, and the hunger is real. 🌱🔥
👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/too-lon...
Our latest blog circles this urgent, beautiful question—while celebrating the surge of interest in our new fellowship. Spirit is moving, and the hunger is real. 🌱🔥
👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/too-lon...
Too Long; Didn't Read: Who Are Public Ministers? A Review of The Past Two Months!
It's been two months since our last "Too Long; Didn't Read" update on our blog activity at the Friends Incubator. During this time our blog has circled around one urgent and beautiful question: What d...
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September 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What does it really mean to be called into Quaker public ministry?
Our latest blog circles this urgent, beautiful question—while celebrating the surge of interest in our new fellowship. Spirit is moving, and the hunger is real. 🌱🔥
👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/too-lon...
Our latest blog circles this urgent, beautiful question—while celebrating the surge of interest in our new fellowship. Spirit is moving, and the hunger is real. 🌱🔥
👉 www.friendsincubator.org/post/too-lon...
Last week we cracked open Walter Brueggemann’s Prophetic Imagination with Jim Webner—grief + hope, lament + amazement, a word for now.
Didn’t make it? No worries. Join us Wed, Aug 27 @ 7pm ET. Free, donations very welcome 🌱
📖 Recap: tinyurl.com/59j9mwuv
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yckeyj4m
Didn’t make it? No worries. Join us Wed, Aug 27 @ 7pm ET. Free, donations very welcome 🌱
📖 Recap: tinyurl.com/59j9mwuv
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yckeyj4m
The Prophet in Public Ministry: Exercising the Prophetic Imagination in Troubled Times | Friends Incubator for Public Ministry
What can public ministers learn from the "prophetic imagination" and how do we apply lessons gleaned from biblical prophets to our labors right now? Join Jim Webner from August 20th until September 17...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Last week we cracked open Walter Brueggemann’s Prophetic Imagination with Jim Webner—grief + hope, lament + amazement, a word for now.
Didn’t make it? No worries. Join us Wed, Aug 27 @ 7pm ET. Free, donations very welcome 🌱
📖 Recap: tinyurl.com/59j9mwuv
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yckeyj4m
Didn’t make it? No worries. Join us Wed, Aug 27 @ 7pm ET. Free, donations very welcome 🌱
📖 Recap: tinyurl.com/59j9mwuv
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/yckeyj4m
See you tonight!!
If you want to come, registration is required, free (donations welcome) and available on our website: friendsincubator.org.
If you want to come, registration is required, free (donations welcome) and available on our website: friendsincubator.org.
August 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
See you tonight!!
If you want to come, registration is required, free (donations welcome) and available on our website: friendsincubator.org.
If you want to come, registration is required, free (donations welcome) and available on our website: friendsincubator.org.
🌟 Ministry takes many shapes. In convo w/ Windy Cooler, Kody Hersh lifts up the gifts of Peterson Toscano, Amanda Kemp, eppchez yo-sí yes & Cai Quirk—artists whose Spirit-led creativity is ministry rooted in love.
💜 The gifts we give each other help us live into transformation.
👉 shorturl.at/o20cr
💜 The gifts we give each other help us live into transformation.
👉 shorturl.at/o20cr
Ministry Beyond Shape: Kody Hersh on Love, Art, and Faithful Creativity
In late July, Public Minister Kody Hersh joined me in a Zoom interview we had planned for a while. He's joining me in a series of testimonies about our friends in ministry who have influenced and insp...
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August 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🌟 Ministry takes many shapes. In convo w/ Windy Cooler, Kody Hersh lifts up the gifts of Peterson Toscano, Amanda Kemp, eppchez yo-sí yes & Cai Quirk—artists whose Spirit-led creativity is ministry rooted in love.
💜 The gifts we give each other help us live into transformation.
👉 shorturl.at/o20cr
💜 The gifts we give each other help us live into transformation.
👉 shorturl.at/o20cr
Dive into the uncompromising clarity of 18th‑century Quaker John Woolman. He paid enslaved people for their labor, shunned sugar & luxury, confronted comfort with complicity, and practiced "near sympathy" with all. Unsettling, urgent, necessary. tinyurl.com/yk6am6r6
#Quaker #Ministry
#Quaker #Ministry
Tom Hamm and the Public Ministers: John Woolman, Uncomfortable Truths, and the Urgent Work of Quaker Justice Today
“It’s sort of with fear and trembling I take up John Woolman... If ever an American Quaker qualified as a saint, it would be Woolman.” —Tom HammIt’s not every day that a Quaker historian calls someone...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Dive into the uncompromising clarity of 18th‑century Quaker John Woolman. He paid enslaved people for their labor, shunned sugar & luxury, confronted comfort with complicity, and practiced "near sympathy" with all. Unsettling, urgent, necessary. tinyurl.com/yk6am6r6
#Quaker #Ministry
#Quaker #Ministry
The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.
August 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Quaker Theological Discussion Group (of Quaker Religious Thought) is excited to share our 2025 call for papers on the theme: "Quaker Public Ministry: History, Practice, Challenges." See qtdg.org for further details.
What does it really mean to carry a concern? Will you survive it?
🕊️ Angela Hopkins speaks plainly about the cost of public ministry—& the toll on ministers of color.
💬 “That is faithfulness… not that it looks like Rembrandt made it.”
👉 tinyurl.com/55yhnu9b
#Quakers #PublicMinistry
🕊️ Angela Hopkins speaks plainly about the cost of public ministry—& the toll on ministers of color.
💬 “That is faithfulness… not that it looks like Rembrandt made it.”
👉 tinyurl.com/55yhnu9b
#Quakers #PublicMinistry
August 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
What does it really mean to carry a concern? Will you survive it?
🕊️ Angela Hopkins speaks plainly about the cost of public ministry—& the toll on ministers of color.
💬 “That is faithfulness… not that it looks like Rembrandt made it.”
👉 tinyurl.com/55yhnu9b
#Quakers #PublicMinistry
🕊️ Angela Hopkins speaks plainly about the cost of public ministry—& the toll on ministers of color.
💬 “That is faithfulness… not that it looks like Rembrandt made it.”
👉 tinyurl.com/55yhnu9b
#Quakers #PublicMinistry
🔥 “It was something that couldn't not happen.” ross brubeck felt the call to public ministry like fire—explosive, undeniable. So he walked. From Brooklyn to D.C. A revival in motion.
Read a public ministry story from the 2025 Quaker Walk to Washington: tinyurl.com/29ume5ac
Read a public ministry story from the 2025 Quaker Walk to Washington: tinyurl.com/29ume5ac
July 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🔥 “It was something that couldn't not happen.” ross brubeck felt the call to public ministry like fire—explosive, undeniable. So he walked. From Brooklyn to D.C. A revival in motion.
Read a public ministry story from the 2025 Quaker Walk to Washington: tinyurl.com/29ume5ac
Read a public ministry story from the 2025 Quaker Walk to Washington: tinyurl.com/29ume5ac
Quaker public minister? Apply for a fellowship! www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-min...
The Ministry Fellowship Has Opened—Because We’ve All Been Listening
A Friendly Invitation to a Braver QuakerismFriends, something beautiful is happening.After years of conversation, spiritual listening, careful discernment, bold experimentation, and not a small amount...
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July 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Quaker public minister? Apply for a fellowship! www.friendsincubator.org/post/the-min...
✨ The Friends Incubator Fellowship for Public Ministry is now OPEN for applications! 🌿
Are you called to public ministry—or supporting someone who is? This 2-year journey offers real support for ministers, elders & meetings.
Apply now 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/fellowship
#Quaker #PublicMinistry 🐦⬛
Are you called to public ministry—or supporting someone who is? This 2-year journey offers real support for ministers, elders & meetings.
Apply now 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/fellowship
#Quaker #PublicMinistry 🐦⬛
July 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
✨ The Friends Incubator Fellowship for Public Ministry is now OPEN for applications! 🌿
Are you called to public ministry—or supporting someone who is? This 2-year journey offers real support for ministers, elders & meetings.
Apply now 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/fellowship
#Quaker #PublicMinistry 🐦⬛
Are you called to public ministry—or supporting someone who is? This 2-year journey offers real support for ministers, elders & meetings.
Apply now 👉 www.friendsincubator.org/fellowship
#Quaker #PublicMinistry 🐦⬛
Reposted by Windy Cooler
The third of @woodbrooke.bsky.social's 2025 Eva Koch Scholar presentations, 'Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation' given by our Justice and Peace Secretary Hezron Masitsa, is now available to watch online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uK4...
Eva Koch 2025 Part 3 Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation
YouTube video by Woodbrooke
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July 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
The third of @woodbrooke.bsky.social's 2025 Eva Koch Scholar presentations, 'Exploring Traditional African Food Preservation' given by our Justice and Peace Secretary Hezron Masitsa, is now available to watch online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uK4...
✨ The Courage to Be Faithful Anyway: 19th-c. DIVORCED Quaker minister Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader preached boldly and lived prophetically. Her story still speaks, as Tom Hamm shows us in the second in our series on #Quaker #PublicMinistry. 🕊️ Read more: tinyurl.com/4am65jv6 #FriendsIncubator
July 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
✨ The Courage to Be Faithful Anyway: 19th-c. DIVORCED Quaker minister Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader preached boldly and lived prophetically. Her story still speaks, as Tom Hamm shows us in the second in our series on #Quaker #PublicMinistry. 🕊️ Read more: tinyurl.com/4am65jv6 #FriendsIncubator