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Alex Wildwood discusses belief and experience

Speaking of God – or not

Alex Wildwood discusses belief and experience

by Alex Wildwood 5th October 2018

Just before Yearly Meeting this year, a headline appeared in a national newspaper: ‘The Quakers are right. We don’t need God’, with the strapline: ‘The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance as it makes some feel uncomfortable…’

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Wayfaring: A Guide To Guidance

"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)

Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

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