Sightings: Quaker Schools, Isolated Friends and the Capitalist Spirit

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  • FedUp­Mom: An insider/outsider’s look at Quaker schools

    Ah, Friends schools — where Protes­tants teach Jews how to be Quak­ers.  It’s a beau­ti­ful thing… I attended a Quaker school myself for a cou­ple of years, and it pretty well cured me of any inter­est in Quak­erism.  I per­son­ally don’t believe that you can improve reli­gion by throw­ing out all the art, music, and rit­ual… The Quaker meet­ing, which is a lot of silence bro­ken by the mus­ings of the pompous,  is a prac­tice I can do without.

    tags: quaker quaker.education quaker.community

  • Iris reads Margery Abbott’s “To be Bro­ken and Tender”

    I’m still learn­ing to trust the heal­ing power of my own words. Remem­ber­ing I’m loved takes reg­u­lar reminders. How often I slip back into wor­ries about whether I’m doing enough, pre­oc­cu­pied with con­cern I’ll be judged or crit­i­cized or com­pared to oth­ers. I’m grate­ful Marge has heeded her call to min­is­ter­ing with words and for shar­ing her own story of “being bro­ken open by God’s love.

    tags: quaker quaker.books quaker.ministry quaker.seattle

  • Isabel Pen­raeth: Advices and Queries for Iso­lated Friends

    I have con­tem­plated OYM’s Queries and Advices reg­u­larly as part of my own spir­i­tual prac­tice for a num­ber of years. Over time, I felt that it would be good to re-work them slightly to empha­size the chal­lenges that I face as an iso­lated Friend and to leave aside sec­tions that don’t apply to my life as a Friend with­out a meet­ing for a spir­i­tual home.

    tags: quaker quaker.seekers quaker.conservative quaker.ohioym quaker.mountain

  • Steven Davi­son: The Protes­tant (Quaker) Ethic & the Cap­i­tal­ist Spirit

    When you can­not achieve grace through sacra­ments, good works or con­fes­sion, the only proof of grace is a way of life that is unmis­tak­ably dif­fer­ent from that of oth­ers. This requires a cer­tain with­drawal from the world. It requires the indi­vid­ual to super­vise her own state of grace in her conduct—that is, it per­me­ates the life with asceti­cism, forc­ing the “ratio­nal­iza­tion of con­duct within the world for the sake of the world beyond,” as Weber put it.

    tags: quaker quaker.witness

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  • J G Broadfield

    I want to say to the mom who had it with Quaker schools & Meet­ing how I can totally relate to that expe­ri­ence 30, even 50 years ago, and there is a lot about Quaker schools today that trou­ble me. But today, art and music are part of Friends schools and many Friends Meet­ings. And prac­tice of elder­ing, which was then prac­ticed in very pompous and neg­a­tive ways, has been trans­formed to a more nur­tur­ing exer­cise. I hope that the writer has found a warm, spir­i­tu­ally nur­tur­ing envi­ron­ment since Quak­ers did achieve that for you. God’s love, of course, is everywhere…

  • JG Broad­field

    I want to say to the mom who had it with Quaker schools & Meet­ing how I can totally relate to that expe­ri­ence 30, even 50 years ago, and there is a lot about Quaker schools today that trou­ble me. But today, art and music are part of Friends schools and many Friends Meet­ings. And prac­tice of elder­ing, which was then prac­ticed in very pompous and neg­a­tive ways, has been trans­formed to a more nur­tur­ing exer­cise. I hope that the writer has found a warm, spir­i­tu­ally nur­tur­ing envi­ron­ment since Quak­ers did NOt achieve that for you. God’s love, of course, is everywhere…