Quakers Do Not Worship Words
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A wide-ranging set of reflections by Hubert Morel-Seytoux on ways that Quakers use words.
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A wide-ranging set of reflections by Hubert Morel-Seytoux on ways that Quakers use words.
In January this year, I submitted an article to Western Friend about Friends and the “Beloved Community,” and I received the best rejection letter ever.
Dear Friends: We gaped as almost 100 congressmen, state attorneys general, and governors signed an amicus brief to a futile lawsuit in Texas, attempting to monkey wrench the recent presidential election.
This article has been abridged from a longer original, which can be found at: westernfriend.org/media/speaking-truth-unabridged.
Full text of a Letter to the Editor, published in part in the January/February 2021 issue of Western Friend magazine.
Original version of an article published (abridged) in the January/February 2021 issue of Western Friend.
I love to quote Frank Zappa on this, “Your life is a ribbon of time that you get to decorate.” Early Friends were rightly wary of decoration. They dissented from “high church” practices of pomp and circumstance, oratory and argumentation, frankincense and anointing oils.
