Bricks And Mortar
Apr. 1st, 2025 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Ailz is down at the Meeting House this morning to open it up for some friendly electricians who- we hope- will help us sort out a long-standing and complicated problem that I'm not going to bore you with.
The early Quakers abominated "steeple houses"- by which they meant churches- and got together in one another's houses or the open air- but soon discovered the convenience of having purpose-built Meeting Houses. In doing so they gained a more rooted identity at the cost of certain freedoms. Bricks and mortar tie you down and make demands. There's no such thing in this world as an unmixed blessing.
The early Quakers abominated "steeple houses"- by which they meant churches- and got together in one another's houses or the open air- but soon discovered the convenience of having purpose-built Meeting Houses. In doing so they gained a more rooted identity at the cost of certain freedoms. Bricks and mortar tie you down and make demands. There's no such thing in this world as an unmixed blessing.
