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  Friends • Mystical Experience • Contemplative Practice
You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this: but what canst thou say? 
Art thou a child of Light and hast thou walked in the Light, and what thou
speakest, is it inwardly from God?                         — George Fox

<>What Canst Thou SayWhat Canst Thou Say? (WCTS) is a worship-sharing group in print for Quakers with an interest in mystical experience and contemplative practice. WCTS is produced cooperatively by a group of Friends who, themselves, have felt the movement of the Spirit and who wish to deepen their understanding by interacting with others.  Over the years of publication more than twenty Friends have been a part of the editorial and production team and hundreds of Friends in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain have shared their stories.
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Discovering God as CompanionDiscovering God as Companion: Real Life Stories from What Canst Thou Say?

Mariellen Gilpin, Editor, Published 23 February 2007 by AuthorHouse, Bloomington IN,
172 pages, paperback. Click here for information on this new book

Listen to an interview with Editor Mariellen Gilpin
on "Keepin' the Faith" November 25, 2007

 

Linda Theresa's "Hands"WCTS? Special Edition:

When Does Grace Enter by Linda Theresa

The Last Days of Linda Theresa by Rhonda Ashurst

<>WCTS Editor Mariellen received this hand-written article by Linda Theresa and was in the midst of typing it when she learned that Linda Theresa had died. The article was too long for our regular issue of WCTS, so we have published excerpts in the May 2006 (No. 50) issue and are making the entire article available on the Internet as a Special Issue (No. 50-A). Click on the title above to download this Special Edition as a pdf file. Rhonda Ashurst has written a moving description of Linda's last days. At the right is a drawing by Linda Theresa entitled "Hands."

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Themes for Future Issues:
November 2008
Angels
Guest Editor: Michael Resman with Judy Lumb
Deadline:  August 15, 2008

And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them. (Luke 2:9)  When have you encountered an angel?  Was it a comforting experience, or a disturbing one? Angels might be described as agents of God's mercy. Have you been helped by an angel? Have you been an angel helping someone else? How have angels changed your life? Share your stories of angels.


February 2009

Gratefulness
Editor: Patricia McBee
Deadline:  November 15, 2008
If your only prayer is “thank you” it is enough. (Meister Eckhart). Do you have a story of the spiritual breakthrough of a spontaneous upwelling of gratitude?  Or perhaps you have a story of the grace that comes from a daily discipline of gratefulness, come what may. What have you discovered about gratitude in the face of suffering?  How have you found God’s grace to be the source or the result of gratefulness?

May 2009
Strangers
Guest Editors: Agnes Miyo Moriuchi and  Lois Pomeroy with Mariellen Gilpin
Deadline:  February 15, 2009

I am a stranger and afraid in a world I never made (A.E. Housman). What stranger did you fear? What kept you from a hospitable spirit? Was Jesus’ promise, I will be with you always, inaccessible? How have you practiced Jesus’ radical hospitality across lines drawn in the sand, so that no one is a stranger? What opened your heart to transform them to us? How have you changed? Was the change laborious, or pure grace? Has the strange become familiar, or the familiar strange?

Tell Us Your Stories!

What Canst Thou Say is a worship-sharing group in print. Its richness comes from the generous sharing of readers with one another. WCTS has a vision—we want to tell the world God is much more various and wonderful than our skeptical culture allows. We hope to help Friends be tender and open to the Spirit. We need your experience—it may be just what someone else needs to know!

Articles that best communicate to our readers generally focus on specific events and are written in the first person. There is a special richness when the writer goes beyond describing the experience and tells how it has changed her or his attitude or behavior.

We welcome submissions of articles of 350-1500 words and artwork—line drawings or artwork suitable for black and white reproduction—that illustrate the theme of an issue, or that we might retain for use in future issues. Please send your text submissions in Word or generic text format and artwork in high resolution jpeg files. Photocopied art and typed submissions are also accepted. Send via email to <m-gilpin@uiuc.edu> or diskette, or hard copy to WCTS, 818 W. Columbia, Champaign, IL 61820.

All authors and artists retain copyright to their articles and artwork published in WCTS. WCTS retains the right to publish initially and also to reprint in WCTS anthologies. If you want to reprint an article from WCTS, please contact us for permission.

We invite you to be part of our worship-sharing group in print.
—The Editorial Team of WCTS: Pat McBee, Mariellen Gilpin, Eleanor Warnock, Judy Lumb.
What Canst Thou Say? is an independent publication by and for Quakers with an interest in mystical experience and contemplative practice. It’s published in August, November, February, and May. The current editorial and production team is Lissa Field, Mariellen Gilpin, Lieselotte Heil, Richard Himmer, Chris Johns, Joan Johnston, Judy Lumb, Patricia McBee, Grayce Mesner, Eleanor Warnock and Wayne Yarnall.
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