https://www.quakerranter.org/quaker-sing-song-ministry/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Wed, 19 Mar 2025 21:01:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.quakerranter.org/quaker-sing-song-ministry/#comment-948076 Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:34:39 +0000 https://www.quakerranter.org/?p=101330#comment-948076 Thank you for posting the recorded examples. Forty years ago there were still a few Friends in Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) who spoke in an exhorting style that was more like what might be found in a Primitive Baptist service. After watching them, I sense that the intoned message phrasing would have been shaped in part by a rocking motion as the speaker held to the rail in the elders and ministers gallery that faced the rest of the seating.
That rocking motion does seem to help with reading the poems of Whitman, by the way.

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