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considermycat

Started reading The Spirit of Freedom: Quaker-shaped Christian theology by Mark Russ

idylls-of-the-divine-romance

“Are you a man or a woman?”

“I’m the Public Universal Friend.”

“What gender are you?”

“Christian.”

“Yeah, but what’s in your pants?”

“The Inner Light.”

ancomestrogen

Catholics and Protestants alike get very mad when Quaker theology. Like I'm sorry that I think of Jesus as an all loving being who cares for every person equally even the trannies you don't like. But I'm also like way happier than you and have a more consistent philosophy than you so maybe you should take some notes

goblin-king-of-anarchy67

Being an ex-Protestant turned Quaker is quite funny in retrospect cause I left the church cause yk everyone was being lowkey hateful bigots and I was just a baby queer wanting to be accepted. All that hate didn’t seem very godly, but I was just a kid so what did I know?

Low and behold years later I figured out all the hateful bigots claiming to be Christians were in fact, just bad Christians who forgot the very important commandment to love thy neighbor.

Imagine forgetting one of THE most important commandments, “love thy neighbor” isn’t exactly hard to understand or remember.

Just don’t be an asshole and treat everyone with respect. Not hard.

kosmogrl

acolytesandtea

Shoutout to Quakerism for being autistic as fuck.

I go, we sit in silence for an hour while half of us do some sort of fiber art to keep our hands busy, we end the meeting and start talking about helping our community, and then someone usually starts talking about a special interest while the rest of us hype them up.

elaineofgreengables

Plain dress outfit

church-on-a-lakeside

Kinda disappointed in myself that I didn't speak up during silent worship today, because I had the desire to, I wanted to sing the chorus of Burial Blessing by Johnny Flynn, but I didn't. But also just glad that 1) I went, and 2) I had the realization that this is what a community is supposed to be. You're supposed to want to be there, and also feel okay not being there for a bit. I actively wanted to stay and talk to people, even if I wouldn't have gone to the programed worship / sermon. It felt good to be there. I'm sad that I didn't speak when I felt the calling to, sad that I didn't stick around to talk to folks, but I went and I felt respected and connected.

theinwardlight

From the organisers of a Young Adult Friends Gathering, at Jordans Friends Meeting House, near Beaconsfield, UK, from 12–16 August 2026 –

In the midst of a difficult time and a hurting world, we sense that there is life and light in earnestly seeking guidance from a power beyond ourselves. At our gathering last year, we experienced this power as an Inward Voice of Love, and often felt Christ’s presence in and among us. In coming together, we found the sensitivity to listen together to the Divine Voice, and the trust and the strength to follow the Companion who is with us always. We invite you to join us in this experience, as we are gathered by the Spirit.

You can fill out this form to express your interest in joining us, and we will share more information and how to register in the coming months. We hope you will consider whether the Spirit is laying this on your heart.

We need your help to make this gathering possible! We plan to make use of the youth hostel near Jordans but need funding for that, as well as for meals and travel bursaries for Friends coming from further away. Please consider whether you or your meeting can support us.

#they will not help financially #don't even try kt #they owe me £10 for lunch from last year! 😂

pleaseshootthejester

Are you a quaker? A radical or left wing christian? Passionate about peace, justice, and equality? Want to spend an hour sitting in silence every Sunday? Yes?!?

Join the Server of Friends! A new Quaker discord server, we host digital meeting every sunday and your admin (thats me!) is autistic about christianity and quakerism! You dont have to be a quaker, we're a quiet and friendly space for meaningful discussion and fellowship.

https://discord.gg/cyRmFA98T

See you there <3

dragon-in-a-fez

I can't remember where I first heard it, but here's a joke that's lived rent free in my head for years:

two friends, a Jew and a Christian, are talking about holiday customs.

the Jew says "on Rosh Hashanah, it's traditional to blow the shofar 30 times"

the Christian looks at him awkwardly and says "wow. all we give our chauffeur on Christmas is a bottle of wine."

dragon-in-a-fez

shana tova everyone

dragon-in-a-fez

really enjoying the fact that people have said "this too is Torah", "y'all need Jesus", and "by Allah you people are dogs" in the notes. I hit the Abrahamic tumblr trifecta

searching4light

I’ve attended my local meeting twice now and I’ve just been blown away with how kind people have been, and how many people have active sought out to connect with me as a person.

I have a fairly significant and very visible physical disability, but people have really made an effort to include me. They go out of their way to make sure that I can shake hands at the end of the meeting, they come up and talk to me – and never in an awkward or patronising way either.

These aren’t people who necessarily know lots about disability justice, many of them fairly clearly don’t spend much time with wheelchair users. But it’s so obvious that they’re coming from a space of seeing the Light in everyone and it’s been really inspiring and welcoming to experience.

I can tell I will learn a lot from becoming part of this community.

thegeekgene

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

snarpreplies

kingscrown666

substantiating-shadows

well damn. this is literally like HALF of the Quaker religion. who's in charge: no one. who speaks back what they heard when the group had a discussion about the subject, the clerk. who writes the notes, the co-clerk/recording clerk (surrounded by worshipful silence as the group holds them in the light). who then reads out the minutes until everyone is satisfied with the accuracy of them. when the minutes are approved by the body, they're sent out to literally anyone who cares. it's like the basis of our whole corporate decision-making so that we don't have a leader and still make decisions as the Religious Society of Friends.

it's not actually consensus because you might not individually agree with any one decision and it might still be taken. however when a decision isn't seen as A or B from the get go but rather, we are all listening to the deep silence and agreeing to be open to a third secret solution that the waiting worship might bring. yes, we do discuss where the comma should go too much but also sometimes they decide to do a thing regardless of the many reasons against it and it's incredible to witness. like when they more recently started returning unceded land. and that time we decided to enforce abolishionary standards in Meetings. (we had to decide to kickout slavers at some point.) this was how that decision was made too.

mangled-by-disuse

I came to this way later than I should have as a supposedly engaged Friend, but holy shit Britain Yearly Meeting's response to the transphobes is fucking incredible.

this is the most profound "fuck you and your shitass underhanded tactics" i have ever seen from an official Quaker source. do you know how badly you have to fuck up for the clerks to outline five different ways you're out of right ordering?

and they have, as one would expect of Quaker bureaucracy, brought the goddamn receipts.

nyah nyah yah boo sucks

like i am just. I'm not surprised but it's still always good to see it acknowledged that Quakers are disproportionately trans and non-binary (literally four times higher percentage of us in Britain Yearly Meeting than in Britain as a whole) and also as a disabled Somewhat Trans the original message leaning so heavily on "but think of the poor disabled people!" pissed me off so fucking much. so. another W here.

yes i know this is just the stuff trans activists have been saying the whole time but this is the stuff we've been saying the whole time and it's laid out just. so fucking succinctly and obviously that it just feels like a sick burn, you know?

HOOTIN AND A-HOLLERIN again, i know this, but having it in official terms as A Fact Of The Situation is just like. ugh. my heart is healing.

it is a very quaker "shut the fuck up" move to repeat "discerned" twice in one paragraph just so you know for damn sure it was done under the quaker process and is divinely/spiritually/bureaucratically solid, and i know because i have done this exact thing while clerking

fellas is it possible to do a pacifist murder

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP again like. if you are not used to quaker spaces i need you to know that it is SUPER uncommon for modern quakers to straight-up say "this is offensive and wrong" to each other. like. it is frankly one of the real problems in the Society, our tendency to be conflict-avoidant and try to find a middle road and be polite.

so i need you to know that being this unequivocal on a contentious issue, in a published communication from BYM, is a fucking nuke in Quaker terms. this is gloves-off bare-knuckle quaker convincement. fucking get 'em.

and finishing out on one final "no YOU'RE out of order!" which, again. as someone who clerks on an area meeting level and has wanted to say this kind of thing to people a lot, this is additionally satisfying in ways that aren't even about the trans rights of it all.

although also