Kindlers put spotlight on Quaker worship
'As far as we know, Quaker worship is unique and the hypothesis might be that this form of worship is in some sense an important part of the human experience.'
The Quaker group The Kindlers is seeking to hear from Friends for a new booklet on Quaker worship. James McCarthy, who is writing the booklet, told the Friend: ‘Apart from asking for people’s responses to [specific set questions], we will also be seeking to interview some people in more depth about their experience of Meeting for Worship. The idea is to try to get a hold of what works by understanding what happens in the Meeting for Worship. As far as we know, Quaker worship is unique and the hypothesis might be that this form of worship is in some sense an important part of the human experience. Our worship could have an effect on the way the world works. So understanding it and making it better could be useful!’
The questions include: ‘How do you know when it is a good Meeting?’; and ‘What effect does Meeting for Worship have on your life?’
Answers will be treated in confidence and all published results will be anonymous.
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Dear Kindlers, I would be delighted to be interviewed in regards to Quaker worship. Daniel Clarke Flynn, member Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting (BLYM), associate tutor Woodbrooke Learning, host/elder Woodbrooke/EMES Meeting for Worship, member QUG, QUIP, and Q&B, leader of Life Reflections workshops at Quaker events in English, French and German, and frequently published author in the Friend and sometimes in the Western Friend. In the penultimate issue of the BLYM bimonthly newsletter that I publishe"d for five years by email to 300 Quakers worldwide, I asked this question What is happening within me today
while I am in the silence of a Quaker Meeting for Worship?” in English and in these languages:
Ce qui se passe en moi aujourd’hui
pendant que je suis dans le silence d’une réunion Quaker pour le culte ?
Wat gebeurt er vandaag in mij
terwijl ik in de stilte van een Quaker Wijdingssamenkomsten ben?
Was passiert heute in mir
während ich in der Stille eines Quäker Andacht bin?
Che cosa sta succedendo dentro di me oggi
mentre sono nel silenzio di un incontro quacchero per il culto?
Que esta pasando dentro de mi hoy
mientras estoy en el silencio de una reunión cuáquera de adoración?
but sadly received no responses. I am sure that you will do better.
Thank you for this initiative.
By Daniel Flynn on 20th April 2023 - 8:46
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