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In that process of seeking, I came to a Quaker meeting. There on a rainy Sunday, I heard others rise and speak what they were hearing when they became quiet, and their accountings were remarkably…
I carried that lesson back to my own life and parish. It’s all too easy for us Americans to switch jobs, switch neighborhoods, heck, even switch spouses when things aren’t going our way. I learned…
[McLaren] is quite familiar with the theology of Friends and spoke in glowing terms of Quakers. Perhaps George Fox & Co. were at the far bleeding edge of what has come to be called the Emergent…
It reminded me of what a lot of young Quakers in the U.S. are asking for: opportunities to have visceral experiences of God. Though many early Friends experienced this in meeting for worship, that…
I think this ought to be required reading for everyone who undertakes the education of children, either as a parent or teacher in a school or First Day School. It is mostly about the Christian…
We think of the Light in which we walk as something warm and full of love. We forget it’s also a searchlight, a firebrand, something that sears when it shines so brightly we can no longer pretend not…
On Archive.org. Disregard its listing as Orthodox, this is the Hicksite version. The “Book of Discipline” is more commonly known as “Faith and Practice” these days and is the most official document of Friends beliefs for the region & group it serves. I love the handwritten note on the inside back cover, which is a copied passage on Friends from Rufus Jones. Via Chris Pifer on a Facebook thread.
Archive.org has a lot of Quaker material, some originally scanned by Google, so it should be there too.
The only thing that troubled me was the lack of Quakers. Why am I the only Quaker to be present in a gathering of progressive Christians? I am certainly not the only “weighty” Quaker—there are other…
Every time I have spoken or written about this matter in a public forum (and the speaking goes back a couple decades), I am given assurances that “something is being done,” and urged, overtly or…
There are still Friends engaged with Native American issues, but for most of us the historical Quaker concern… is a vague piece of history. This opportunity, though, is always there for us to put…
This looks pretty cool. November in Philadelphia. Jerry Frost is one of the keynotes:
This major international, interdisciplinary conference aims to examine the history, literature, and culture of the Quaker relationship with slavery, from the society’s origins in the English Civil War to the end of the American Civil War.
It’s clear that the “small” gestures of the early Quakers—not taking off their hats, not theeing and thouing—sent tremors through the society disproportionate to the gestures themselves. They were powerful symbols of a new way of living. They were simple acts affirming human dignity that resonate with us to this day.
And it is in the silence that the community who hears such vocal ministry will come to bear witness to that person’s transformation and healing. We will help hold the Friend prayerfully as she, or he, sinks down into the Seed and begins to share the story.
From the “New Quaker” issue of Quaker Life:
The old kind of Quaker wants to make sure we pass on buildings, property and programs to the next generation. The new kind of Quaker wants to make sure we pass on a living faith, a demonstration of faithfulness and a heart of integrity to the next generation.
In Quaker Life:
I don’t hear anyone calling for the formation of new “convergent” institutions. I suspect we have become burdened by our inheritance of our spiritual grandparents’ treasures and their neuroses. Perhaps we need to break free of the weight of our inheritance, sort the treasures from the junk, and wait to see where God is leading us.
Part of my response in the comments:
I’m glad Scott’s piece was put up online since he had some good points about the organizational and institutional change-of-mind that a lot of us see happening. It reminds me of Robert Webber’s generational chart that I put at the bottom of my 2003 emergent church piece.
I wouldn’t say we’re just holding space for the future. We’re the present negotiating with the eternal, just as every generation is and will be. I too resonate with the pre-Fox Seekers of Northern England. I think the Quaker-leaning seekers movement is much larger than the current RSOF. At some point I decided to care more about those who would be Friends if they knew about us (and if we acted more in line with our principles) than those who actually were. It helps keep me from getting too bent out of shape over current internal controversies.
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