Spiritual healing and Quakers
Andrew Backhouse writes on spiritual healing
Are there issues you know we should talk about, but don’t really want to? Issues that make you uncomfortable in some unspecific way and for no absolutely obvious reason? Spiritual healing comes well up my list. It is not a problem to read about Jesus healing the sick and laying on hands. He did this a long time ago. Friends Fellowship of Healing operated a stall at Yearly Meeting. There is a Friend active in my own Meeting in some way. I know people prayed for me when I fell off a ladder. I have recovered well. However, let’s be like Yearly Meeting sessions and Swarthmore Lectures and just ignore it.
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