1. Real Live Preacher Gordon Atkinson: Inner Dialogue at a Quaker Meeting

    A funny piece about a newcomer’s train of thought during meeting for worship:

    Oh great. I’m at a Quaker meeting without a watch. How am I going to keep up with the time? I’m not going to worry about the time at all. I’m going to sit here and meditate on God so that….Hey, there’s  squirrel outside the window. Look at him run along that branch. Do you think the Quakers feed the squirrels so they’ll have something to watch while they’re sitting here so quietly?