Quakers And Christmas
Dec. 12th, 2024 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We've put up a couple of trees up in the Meeting House.
One is very small and sits on a table and has lights. Artificial obviously.
The other is an odd thing I found at the tip shop a year ago. It's a home-made pyramidal object made of interwoven branches and sprayed gold. I don't suppose there's another quite like it anywhere. It stands about two feet high.
Do Quakers celebrate Christmas?
Well, the early Quakers were Puritans and much as I admire them I think they overdid their commitment to not having fun. No music, no dancing, no art, no festivals.
It's the one thing they got wrong.
So there'll be a Meeting for worship on Christmas Day- and I've said I'll open up again on Boxing Day because Boxing Day is a Thursday and it says in our publicity we open every Thursday and I think we should keep our promises even in no-one takes us up on them....
One is very small and sits on a table and has lights. Artificial obviously.
The other is an odd thing I found at the tip shop a year ago. It's a home-made pyramidal object made of interwoven branches and sprayed gold. I don't suppose there's another quite like it anywhere. It stands about two feet high.
Do Quakers celebrate Christmas?
Well, the early Quakers were Puritans and much as I admire them I think they overdid their commitment to not having fun. No music, no dancing, no art, no festivals.
It's the one thing they got wrong.
So there'll be a Meeting for worship on Christmas Day- and I've said I'll open up again on Boxing Day because Boxing Day is a Thursday and it says in our publicity we open every Thursday and I think we should keep our promises even in no-one takes us up on them....
