What I have Discerned
Oct. 17th, 2024 08:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I was reading in "The Friend" (the Quaker magazine) about a man on Death Row in the United States who was befriended by a London Quaker and eventually became a Member (at a distance) of her Meeting. "Right on!" I thought.
A Quaker Meeting is made up of whatever folk care to show up and hang around- and the only reason someone should be excluded is if they put others in danger or cause more disruption than the Meeting can happily cope with. We don't ask that they conform to any particular set of moral standards. We are not a sour-faced huddle of the unco' guid.....
Our Meeting has an issue to deal with- or side-step. Two Friends are saying that another Friend is not as nice as he should be. Well, what a pity! The two paragraphs above constitute the answer I have "discerned".
A Quaker Meeting is made up of whatever folk care to show up and hang around- and the only reason someone should be excluded is if they put others in danger or cause more disruption than the Meeting can happily cope with. We don't ask that they conform to any particular set of moral standards. We are not a sour-faced huddle of the unco' guid.....
Our Meeting has an issue to deal with- or side-step. Two Friends are saying that another Friend is not as nice as he should be. Well, what a pity! The two paragraphs above constitute the answer I have "discerned".
