The way the container closes the door on “continuing revelation”: I remember when stewardship was added to the list, but where do we go from here? I suspect that the Holy Spirit is not done with us yet.

The way the container leaves stuff out; notably for me, our “testimony” against capital punishment.

And most importantly, the way the container tends to externalize the testimonial life into an outward form, a principle to live by, rather than living in our outward lives the Truth that we’ve received inwardly from our Guide, though some of these truths have been confirmed by corporate discernment enough over time to stand as settled “testimonies”. But it’s the listening spirituality and the outward faithfulness that matters.

Wow, 1981 would put it almost twenty years earlier than any other instance I’ve seen. By chance do you have any documentation from such an early date?

Cool info. I’ve edited the original comment for clarity. My wife is debating this date, though. She says she remembers hearing about SPICE while in high school, sometime around 1994. She didn’t go to a Quaker school so this would have been Phildelphia Yearly Meeting circles.