https://www.quakerranter.org/outreach-gets-people-to-your-meetinghouse-hospitality-keeps-people-returning/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:29:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/outreach-gets-people-to-your-meetinghouse-hospitality-keeps-people-returning/#comment-194672 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 03:02:00 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=36426#comment-194672 I liked this. One thing struck me, though, about 15 minutes after reading it. I was thinking of the first thing people ask me or have asked me after I drop the “Q” word, about 99 percent of the time. “What do Quakers believe?” And there’s your fundamental problem. Even if hospitality’s done right, liberal Friends, unless they change significantly, will continue to have a lack of “staying power” because, ultimately, newcomers will want to know, “what Quakers believe,” and they will want something they can sink their teeth into.

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