A headline in this Memorial Day’s paper sent me reeling down the shadowed halls of memory.
The news was from Uganda, where the president has signed a new law which increases the legal penalties against homosexuality to life imprisonment, and in some cases death. Merely “promoting” homosexuality can get twenty years. Continue reading “Re-Closeting,” Life & Death: A Reading for Another Kind of Memorial Day
Some Quaker FAQs, For New Friends & the “Quaker Curious”
Part 1
A few years back, a young Friend told me about a church which is near her home. She had high school friends who went there, and they had invited her to visit.
They had also been asking her about what Quakers believe, and how that might differ from what they believe there, or in other churches.
These are reasonable questions, but this young Friend had trouble answering.
The thing is, she hadn’t really been taught much about either of these topics: the basics of Quaker beliefs, or the basics of what more “orthodox” Christian churches believe.
I’ve heard of similar incidents, where younger (and some older) Friends were left feeling puzzled or embarrassed when asked such questions. And in our still highly-churched society, such questions come up a lot.
I looked around for a book to help her cope with these questions. Something short and focused, and meant for younger Quakers and the “Quaker Curious” of any age.
Didn’t find anything.
So I wrote a 40-page booklet, .Some Quaker FAQs, For New & Curious Friends.
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