diigo - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:57:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 diigo - Quaker Ranter https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 Have Friends lost their cultural memory? https://www.quakerranter.org/maurine-pyles-view-from-firbank-fell/ https://www.quakerranter.org/maurine-pyles-view-from-firbank-fell/#comments Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:53:44 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=17442 In America today our sense of spiritual fellowship in Liberal meetings, the feeling of belonging to the same tribe, is diminishing. We no longer live in the same communities, and we come from diverse faith traditions. Our cultural values are no longer entwined at the roots, as were those of our founders. As a body we share less genetic and cultural memory of what it means to be Quakers. Different viewpoints often prevent us from looking in the same direction to find a point of convergence. We hold beliefs ranging from Buddhism to non-theism to Christianity, or we may simply be ethical humanists. Just imagine a mixture of wild seeds cast into a single plot of land, producing a profusion of color. A wide variety of plants all blooming together symbolize our present condition in the Religious Society of Friends. Discerning which is a wildflower and which is a weed is not easy. We are living a great experiment of religious diversity.

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Together in the Truth
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