Thing I just said in a fb chat with a friend who is deal with extended family drama:

it is REALLY FUCKING HARD to interact with people who are being heinous towards you with a clear rememberance that they have that of god within them.

because they are working VERY HARD to cover that shit up
Quakerism for people who swear a lot ( Read more... )

In the course of mediating an ethically sticky and potentially explosive conflict about a project I'm working on, I ended up explaining what clearness is, because what I really wanted was for all of us to be clear before we move forward. (Faith and Practice of the New York Yearly Meeting, which is my yearly meeting, defines it as such: "A condition ( Read more... )

Since I added/was added by a bunch of new people on
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So it's Lent.

I like Lent. I like that the Catholic calendar has all these seasons of anticipation, of expectant waiting, which is a principle that is key to my faith as a Quaker. I like that it's about doing something, that it's got rituals attached that are supposed to mean something to you. For someone who gave up the most ritualized of ( Read more... )