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!
A query over on Quakerranter.org
I get discouraged with being part of a tiny meeting that’s pretty set in its ways. Any hope of working in the community was answered by “we are too small.” My meeting knows the life details, my kids names and birthdates. But my ecumenical groups know my theology, my spiritual struggles, what brings me to tears, what scripture is most meaningful to me, how I try to live my faith, why I’m mostly hopeful, how I know God.
