https://www.quakerranter.org/quaker-sightings-weekly/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:27:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/quaker-sightings-weekly/#comment-194514 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:39:00 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/2011/01/quaker-sightings-weekly/#comment-194514 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…

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