Quaker Universalist Voice

Speaking truth in the global public square…

Topic: Spiritual experience



Solstice

Uniting the world

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

Carrying silence into the world

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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