Quakerism Getting https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/quakerism-getting/ A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:57:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Quakerism Getting https://www.quakerranter.org/tag/quakerism-getting/ 32 32 16720591 Getting vs. Feeling Better https://www.quakerranter.org/quakerism-getting-vs-feeling-better-2/ https://www.quakerranter.org/quakerism-getting-vs-feeling-better-2/#respond Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:50:33 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=60151 Rhonda Pfaltzgraff-Carlson wants us to take the healing power of the Light seriously:

I was concerned about the underlying message being sent. I didn’t want non-Friends to believe that we have a tradition of silent worship because we’ve found that we can use this time to forget our problems and bury our discomfort! Indirectly, it suggested that sitting in silence is just another means for feeling better.

This reminds me a bit of the recently renewed discussions in the Quaker blogosphere* around Michael Sheeran’s observations in Friends a generation ago.

Quakerism: Getting Better vs. Feeling Better

*This term isn’t too impossibly 1998, is it?

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