Testimonies for twentieth-first century: a Testimony Against "Community"
I propose a little amendment to the modern Quaker testimonies. I think it's time for a moratorium of the word "community" and the phrases "faith community" and "community of faith." Through overuse, we Friends have stretched this phrase past its elasticity point and it's snapped. It's become a meaningless, abstract term used to disguise the fact that we've become afraid to articulate a shared faith. A recent yearly meeting newsletter used the word "community" 27 times but the word "God" only seven: what does it mean when a religious body stops talking about God?
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Quaker Storytelling as Religious Ed: how do you teach a religion that can't be defined?
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