Over some 300 years, we’ve evolved ways to handle the tension between what some individual member might feel divinely led to say or do, and what his Quaker Meeting as a whole could approve. We tend to be free about individual stands, cautious about anything said in the name of a Meeting. A blog moves the tension into a whole new context. People aren’t always rational, attentive, or nice online; mistakes could be made, fusses erupt in public!
