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More on Laughlin’s typology

The following reflection on our A typology of universalisms post is offered by Spears, clerk of the Quaker Universalism Friends steering committee. The QUF archive to which he refers is found on our Publications page, especially through the links to…

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What is “religion”?

We have been exploring the possible connotations of the term “belief” from the perspective of various readers of this blog. The exploration was sparked by Katie Kent’s comment that, for her, being a Quaker is “a spiritual discipline and practice, rather…

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Solstice

Friends have a healthy wariness of calendars, and particularly of names or ceremonies assigned to particular days in a calendar. Human beings by nature ascribe meaning—sometimes sacred meaning—to patterns of events and objects. Such naming is of biological…

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Interruptions and invitations

Because my Meeting worships in the staff lounge of a large urban cemetery, we occasionally have intrusions from non-Quakers who break the silence with well-meant yet disruptive questions. Recently, three interruptions in a row had me first chuckling and then quaking with the…

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Listening in Tongues

In his blog, The Empty Path, Mike Shell shares his quest to understand how to “hear or to be heard across the boundaries of our differing belief systems.” How do you speak of your spiritual experiences among Friends, and to the world at large? Do you find…

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