Brylie Oxley, Web Master for Western Friend for over a decade, joins host Jon Stoll and a live audience for a conversation on new technologies, artificial intelligence, and spirituality. Brylie also shares about a new tool that he developed, georgefox.chat, a chat bot primed and eager to discuss about Quakerism, George Fox, or any queries you may have.

You can access the chatbot here: georgefox.chat
You can read Brylie's article in the latest issue of Western Friend here.
Explore past episodes of the Western Friend Podcast here.

On Episode 37, you will here the keynote address from this year’s Pacific Yearly Meeting on the topic of “Transformation," facilitated by health and wholeness visionary ,O (See: listeningheartslove.org). A longtime Quaker, ,O is a member of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, and leads Love and Respect Transform, a ministry that focuses on deepening our understanding and experience of alternatives to social and environmental violence by exploring the transformative power of love. We hope you enjoy this episode, and make sure to be on the lookout for new episodes of the Western Friend Podcast, released the first Saturday of every month. 

This episode of the Western Friend podcast features the keynote address, given by Barry Crossno, General Secretary of Friends General Conference, at Intermountain Yearly Meeting on June 14, 2024. In his address, Barry discusses several challenges facing many monthly meetings, and some of the potential solutions that could help moving forward. He shares about his own journey to Quakerism, on matching the value system of today’s youth, surrendering to what the future holds, and much more. 

You can find all of the past episodes of the Western Friend podcast wherever you listen, and be on the lookout for new episodes released the first Saturday of every month. 

Welcome to Episode 35, where the host of the Western Friend Podcast chats with Elaine Granata and David Poundstone about their work visiting and conversing with incarcerated folks. Both Elaine and David are members of Mountain View Friends Meeting in Denver, who spoke with us about their experiences visiting men in federal prisons through the Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS) program.

You can also read the articles they wrote for the May/June 2024 issue of Western Friend magazine below:

A Certain Naïveté by Elaine Granata

In the Twilight Zone by David Poundstone

Welcome to episode 34 of the Western Friend Podcast, a joint production of Western Friend and the Soul Force Ones. On today’s episode, Mary Klein and Jon Stoll facilitate a conversation with Sister Confianza del Señor of the Amigas del Señor Methodist Monastery in Limón, Honduras. She shares about her calling to the monastic life, her interest in the Spanish language and her journey to Honduras, and her article “The Power of Prayer” in the latest issue of the Western Friend Magazine. 

On this episode of the Western Friend Podcast, Jon and the community speak with Zae Illo, a Master of Divinity from the Earlham School of Religion. He works as an operations manager for Youth Spirit Artworks, leads the Bible study and street outreach ministries at Glide Church, and recently began a biweekly laundry ministry at the San Francisco Friends Meeting.  You can find more at CyberGlow.org

LINKS

• You can read his most recent article in the March 2024 issue of the Western Friend magazine, titled The Perplexity of Prayer HERE. 
• To see all of his other articles in Western Friend, click HERE. 
• For an archive of past Western Friend Podcast episodes, click HERE.
• To read more about the Soul Force Ones, click HERE.

Episode 32 of the Western Friend Podcast features a conversation with Nancy Marshall, a member of Phoenix Friends meeting and a retired attorney and former director of the Arizona Civil Liberties Union. On this episode, she discusses her recent article in Western Friend magazine, titled Friendly Truth to Power, and her most recently published book, A Dry Hate. 

On episode 31 of the Western Friend Podcast, we’re joined by Andrew Franklin. Andrew attends Camas Friends, works for Goodwill Industries, and serves on the Equity and Inclusion Committee of Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends.

On this episode, he chats with us about:

• His article, Good Samaritan Mindset, in Western Friend’s latest issue
•  His Quaker meeting's work towards reparations with an Indigenous community
• Creating the beloved community that we want to be a part of
• The importance of seeing every person, not only those in our circle
• The power of acting now, in the moment

Thank you for joining us this week, and don’t forget to listen to all of the amazing past episodes in our archive wherever you get your podcasts. Stay tuned for new episodes of the Western Friend Podcast released the first Saturday of every month.

In the 30th episode of the Western Friend Podcast for this new year, we travel back to 2018 to revisit a panel of speakers discuss the topic of “Unity is not Unanimity”, examining ways to keep our communities together despide disputes and disagreements within. Friends discuss:

• Ways to work through conflict, based in love and spirituality 
• The process of decision making when there may be disagreement
• The importance of eldering as spiritual guidance and/or spiritual mentoring

Remember, you can check out the archive of all 30 episodes wherever you listen to podcasts, and NEW EPISODES are released the first Saturday of each month.

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Roscoe Mathieu, a member of Central Coast Friends Meeting, joins us for episode 29. Roscoe expands on his article, A Quaker Rosary, that appeared in the November 2023 issue of Western Friend Magazine. In the second half of the episode, he takes questions from the audience.

LINKS

• Roscoe´s article: A Quaker Rosary
• Western Friend Magazine (Nov/Dec 2023)
• Western Friend Podcast archive