… but not by me. A friend who came to our meeting from Mormonism reposts an account of his written 3.5 years ago, describing our meeting and how liberal Quakerism compares to Mormonism.
A description of my Quaker meeting …
November 10, 2009 by lgazissax
Posted in Gods, Lynn Gazis-Sax, Self | 1 Comment
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For many years I was an attender at a local (unprogrammed) Friends meeting, and found many of the same phenomena your Quaking Mormon describes. The problem with such groups is that, precisely because they are both unprogrammed and volunteer-based, they are especially vulnerable to a kind of soft dictatorship of “weighty Quakers” (for the unfamiliar, this refers to weight of character, not of corpus.) Anybody willing to DO everything can pretty much TAKE OVER everything. Which is in some ways praiseworthy, I guess, at least compared with the usual bureaucratic structure in which those with the most power do the least work, and vice versa.