Old Times, Quaker iconography (Links)
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"Maybe what's important now is not for Quakers to be uberQuakers -- or even Quakers at all. Maybe many are each being called to be Spirit-led in a more nameless, formless way, just following those inner nudges..."
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"For some in this Friends meeting, that was the moment when Gospel order stopped being an ideal, a nice Quaker cliché, and became an operational reality."
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Hopefully the rest of the outreach week won't be so obscure...
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"[Early Friends] weren't just serving people in order for people to become Quakers. They were serving people because they genuinely loved them and wanted to show them the same love they'd received from God."
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Regarding the British Quaker Week t-shirt, at first I thought the meaning was obvious: the seven lines represent the seven North American Yearly Meetings in a triumphant rise from the depths of the right to the heights of the left. But then I guess it *is* a British thing so...
Hmmmm...., maybe it's a coded apology for British role in fomenting the American divisions, a situation that put Quakerism in a jail of its own making, a condition that maybe we're able to now tilt on it side as if it's a polarized lens being turned to open to the light.... Methinks I'm trying too hard.
Iconography of any sort in a Friends setting is a little iffy perhaps. Logos somehow feel like the visual counterpart to a creed--easily misunderstood and taken the wrong way. T-shirts with a bit of wording to contextualize any image at least lets passersby and acquaintances know that this is an identity you're willing to share and talk about. It sounds like perhaps this shirt will have a slogan of some sort--maybe on the back? For now, I think I'll stick to my favorite Quaker t-shirt: the white one underneath the collarless shirt and suspenders!
For honesty's sake: sitting at home in sleeveless gray t-shirt bought at the Gap ten years ago, waiting for rain to stop!