tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post8854686388701391900..comments2024-03-24T11:30:08.199-07:00Comments on Can you believe?: Quakers' best-fit marketJohan Maurerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-81478566000337429882015-07-17T08:40:55.887-07:002015-07-17T08:40:55.887-07:00Hi, Marshall. You're right. One of the key rem...Hi, Marshall. You're right. One of the key reminders is the title many yearly meetings give to their books of discipline: <i>Faith AND Practice</i>. Ideally, we'd have the language to describe how we implement each of the values we hold dear. Otherwise, our peculiar practices just turn into folkways, or worse yet, just serve to feed our own conceit.<br /><br />Among the examples that we could cite, and one that often holds true throughout the varieties of Friends, is the way presiding clerks serve the meeting for business.Johan Maurerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13771067774042071617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7217199.post-4790175581500288072015-07-17T06:06:01.408-07:002015-07-17T06:06:01.408-07:00Good definition of church, Friend, and good list o...Good definition of church, Friend, and good list of suggestions. For me, though, an important place must be given, in any sort of marketing, to a presentation of the ways in which Quaker practice <i>is designed to make possible</i> a life that is faithful to Jesus’s requirements. For apart from that important feature, there really is no reason for a person who yearns to live with Jesus at the center of community, to choose to be a Quaker. She or he might just as well choose to join some bigger worshiping community with easy programming and a better child-care program closer to home.Marshall Masseyhttp://journal.earthwitness.orgnoreply@blogger.com