More Quaker Bloggers

Here’s a couple of new-to-me blogs I’ve been reading lately.

The Contrarian Quaker’s last post was about the Conservative Statement of Faith. He’s also post a recent letter to the Friends Journal.

Kwakersaur is a Canadian Friend. He recently wrote about Quaker ecclesiology, citing Avery Dulles’ Models of the Church, which is what Elizabeth Cazden uses in her recent pamphlet, Fellowships, Conferences and Associations (my post, pamphlet).

Finally, a warm welcome to Amanda’s new blog Of the Best Stuff But Plain. She’s part of the extended Quaker Ranter family. Here’s just a taste from the first post on her new blog:

It feels a bit daunting to me, and very presumptive of me as a brand new, and yet unlisted Friend, to say that we have to be prepared to defy even the Tribe of our Meeting or the Tribe of Quakers, but I know without a doubt it is true. We might not even have to leave our meeting or our Society to shoulder our cross and follow Jesus beyond the gates, because it is already very apparent to me that both bodies are already efficiently subdivided into many different camps and cliques. Sometimes my conversations with Friends can feel as if I’m rushing extremely civilized fraternities and sororities. I can already feel myself wanting to choose a surname for myself among the different factions. Hicksite? Wilburite? Hmm? We need to be brave enough to stand outside of every one of them. The city to come will be built on new, uncharted land, and the great people to be gathered will meet each other on the journey there, not around the campfire.