'We recognise a common feeling, and sense that a ‘reality of supreme value’ underlies all human life.' Photo: Robert Koorenny on Unsplash.

‘Quaker pilgrimage is a searching but also a recognition.’

Reality check: Neil Morgan unpicks a knotty subject

‘Quaker pilgrimage is a searching but also a recognition.’

by Neil Morgan 4th December 2020

We sometimes get ourselves tied up in knots with arguments over God language in Meeting. People start to sigh, and can become uncomfortable. I want to try to offer some unknotting, so that we might get along better, by concentrating attention on the words ‘real’, and ‘really’.