'Knowing I was made in the image of God helped me with self-acceptance.' Photo: by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash
What’s in a name? Abigail Maxwell on what we call ‘God’
‘These experiences are idiosyncratic, but we see commonalities.’
by Abigail Maxwell
11th February 2022
If there is an Eternal Creator, then I experience it. If humans are evolved animals in a material universe, there is something in us which Quakers have called God. We experience it as powerful and apparently alien in moments of Convincement, and as producing something new and valuable in ministry. It is as if we have conscious selves adapted for our society, and something inside fits us for something so different that we call it Heaven on Earth.
