Friends JournalWhat can a #Quaker meeting accomplish by loosening the reins of process in a way that values Friends' time and timeliness as well as their discernment? Kat Griffith discusses how her yearly meeting formed a rapid response team to address pressing concerns.
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Hello Friends! I am a Quaker living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri country in Canberra, Australia. I maintain the Canberra and Region Quakers account (@CanberraRegionQuakers). This is account is for engaging in conversations in a personal capacity. 🏳️🌈🇦🇺
@shannonkay @boredtownboy @jetton Good question and I’m certainly no expert (but interested to hear from those who are). From a quick look, the Quaker Bible index says ‘The Authorized (King James) Version was the most recent; several 16th-century translations – Geneva, Bishops’, and Tyndale – were still current, and Friends quoted all of them.’ https://qbi.earlham.edu/intro.htm
Steve SilbermanShout it from the rooftops: Colman Domingo's portrayal of civil-rights warrior Bayard Rustin in "Rustin," new on Netflix, is ELECTRIFYING, in part because he's so gay, which is a heroic act of unerasure. If you feel poisoned by MAGA, this film is the antidote!
@rhiannongrant In meeting for worship I try to still my mind from worldly thoughts, to open myself completely, to become an ‘empty vessel’ and to speak only in ministry what comes to me when deeply centred. Much of my favourite writing on meeting for worship seems to come from the Quietist period or from early Friends with Quietist tendencies. I just never realised! A grounded, experiential mysticism is probably what I value most in Quaker practice.
I have been reading about the Quietist period of Quakerism. I increasingly feel like not only has this period been unfairly dismissed and judged, I’m kind of sensing I might even have strong Quietist tendencies myself. 😯 #Quakers
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@jetton @boredtownboy This is not the book to convince you otherwise. 😅
@martin has movedIn this week's newletter, stories of #Quakers following mysterious promptings of the Spirit.
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@boredtownboy @jetton Better than all caps, write a whole book about it citing the grammar of dozens of languages. George Fox’s ‘A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural’ is a real treat of grumpy scholarship. I’m surprised that they had access to so many languages in 17th century England, to be honest. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eebo;idno=A40123.0001.001
A battle-door for teachers & professors to learn singular & plural you to many, and thou to one, singular one, thou, plural many, you : wherein is shewed ... how several nations and people have made a distinction between singular and plural, and first, in the former part of this book, called The English battle-door, may be seen how several people have spoken singular and plural...: also in this book is set forth examples of the singular and plural about thou, and you, in several languages, divided into distinct Battle-Doors, or formes, or examples; English Latine, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriack, Arabick ... and how emperors and others have used the singular word to one, and how the word you came first from the Pope, likewise some examples, in the Polonian, Lithuanian, Irish and East-Indian, together with ... Swedish, Turkish ... tongues : in the latter part of this book are contained severall bad unsavory words, gathered forth of certain school-books, which have been taught boyes in Enland ... / George Fox, John Stubs, Benjamin Farley.
@boredtownboy @jetton Yes, it was a load-bearing ‘ish’ for the sake of brevity. A lot of prominent early Quakers, including George Fox came from the North of England and from families in trade. When they started travelling in ministry I’m guessing that they encountered places and sections of society where the more widespread use of ‘you’ sounded novel to them and grated on their ears all the more. And they had the KJV Bible to back them. Just a guess, though.