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Reaching Out: Publishing truth - Quaker Quest style

26 01 2012 | by Michael Hennessey | Read 210 times
Michael Hennessey reflects on risks and experiments

Words from all five of the Reaching Out articles were used to make this ‘word cloud’ showing the frequency of their usage. | Wordle.net


A quest is powered by questions. On a Quaker Quest these questions will be spiritual ones of profound significance to those who ask them. Seekers dare to cross the threshold of a Quaker Meeting house for the first time because something stronger than their apprehension impels them in the search for answers. In the experience of those facilitating the early Quaker Quests, the most profound question invariably concerned God. If there is no God there doesn’t seem much point in worship, or prayer, or any language of Spirit. Seekers have an intuition that the way Quakers experience and understand God is different from other Christian denominations and other faiths: ‘so tell us all about it,’ they ask.
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