Sikkerhet blir ofte overvurdert.

Mange spørsmål har ikke raske svar.
Likevel forventes det ofte at vi skal mene noe umiddelbart og være tydelige hele tiden.

Kvekernes praksis gir rom for tvil, stillhet og ettertanke.
Ikke som passivitet, men som en måte å ta mennesker og beslutninger på alvor.

Noen ganger tar det tid å forstå hva som faktisk er sant.

#Quakers #Tydelighet #Kvekere #Stillhet #Nordics
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Certainty is often overrated.

Many questions do not have quick answers.
Even so, we are often expected to react immediately and speak with confidence all the time.

Quaker practice creates space for doubt, silence, and reflection.
Not as passivity, but as a way of taking people and decisions seriously.

Sometimes it takes time to understand what is actually true.

#Clarity #FriendsOnTheFediverse

How was your meeting for worship?
Feel free to share a reflection.
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Hur var din andaktsstund?
Dela gärna några tankar.
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Hvordan var din andaktsstund?
Del gjerne noen tanker.
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Hvordan var din andagtsstund?
Del gerne nogle tanker.

#Quakers #MeetingForWorship #Silence #Reflection #Faith #Kvakare #Kvekere #Andakt #QuakerPractise #FriendsOnTheFediverse

Curious about Quakers?

This Sunday, Meetings for Worship will take place in Stockholm, Stavanger, and Oslo.

No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.

Just come and sit.

🕊️ Stockholm
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Vännernas Samfund, Kristinehovsgatan 6, 117 29 Stockholm

🕊️ Stavanger
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Sandvigå 7, 4007 Stavanger

🕊️ Oslo
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Bernhard Getz' gate 3, 0165 Oslo

#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Nordics #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Stockholm #Oslo #Stavanger

Curious about Quakers?

This Saturday, Meetings for Worship will take place in Trollhättan and Uppsala.

No expectations.
No prior knowledge needed.

Just come and sit.

🕊️ Trollhättan
🕰️ 11:00–12:00
📍 Equmeniakyrkan Trollhättan, Klintvägen 4, 461 50 Trollhättan

🕊️ Uppsala
🕰️ 15:00–16:00
📍 Linnégatan 1, 753 32 Uppsala

#Quakers #SilentWorship #Stillness #Sweden #FriendsOnTheFediverse #Uppsala #Trollhättan

@olaf_radicke @martinkubler this is one of those questions where if you ask 10 Quakers you'll get 11 different answers, but I will say I have met very few Quakers who share the patriarchal conservative Christian conception of God (the Divine, the Light, the force of good in the Universe or whatever term they may use for it) as a personified hierarchical leader above us giving out instructions that we must follow. The more common conception is that it is benevolent guidance within us that we all have access to, whatever form that may take.

#Quakers

Modern society tends to imagine only two ways of organising human life: control or chaos.

What interested me while writing this piece is how both Quakerism and anarchism push against that binary in surprisingly similar ways.

New article: https://www.martinkubler.com/hierarchy-conscience-participation/

#Anarchism #Quakers #Politics #Philosophy #Community #Participation #MutualAid #Consensus #SocialTheory

Hierarchy, conscience, and the politics of participation

Most people hear the word anarchism and picture chaos: burning cars, black masks, and violence without direction.\\ Most people hear Quakerism and picture s...

The In-Between Space

Working through Pope Leo's encyclical on Artificial Intelligence. About halfway through it and really enjoying it so far and learning a ton about Catholic Social Doctrine.

The goal is to finish & write a theological response Quaker Religious Thought for June.

#QuakerReligiousThought #Quakers

Historically, even modest challenges to hierarchy have often been treated as dangerous ideas.

My latest post explores the overlap between anarchism and Quakerism beyond the stereotypes: consensus, participation, conscience, mutual aid, and distrust of concentrated power.

New post: https://www.martinkubler.com/hierarchy-conscience-participation/

#Anarchism #Quakers #Consensus #Grassroots #SocialJustice #PoliticalThought #MutualAid #FriendsOnTheFediverse

Hierarchy, conscience, and the politics of participation

Most people hear the word anarchism and picture chaos: burning cars, black masks, and violence without direction.\\ Most people hear Quakerism and picture s...

The In-Between Space

Attention is becoming harder to hold.

Most of us move through the day reacting. Messages arrive, feeds refresh, and something is always demanding focus.

Quaker practice creates space to pause and listen carefully. That can mean listening to other people, to ourselves, or simply sitting quietly for a while without needing to fill the silence.

Sometimes clarity comes from giving something more time before responding.

#Quakers #Attention #Stillness #FriendsOnTheFediverse

On the cover of the latest regional #Quakers newsletter, I'm on top of it and on the left (where I aspire to be in Real Life).

https://www.bym-rsf.org/file_download/inline/4c8b5c62-9267-45e9-8371-b6b9fc4b0275