If the Word, and continued revelation, of God is not a two-edged sword that cuts to the marrow of your life, then it's baloney. If, as Kierkegaard has written in "Either-Or", the razor-edge decision to freely surrender your will to God is not by way of a personal relationship, then it's baloney.

If God is no respecter of personal privilege or property, looking only for an opportunity to invade your "home turf" or, at least, get under your skin, then it's scary-serious. If God is…

Though held, to some extent or Quaker "measure", by persons, as Heraclitus, before the Christian Era and others, as John Locke, before the U.S. Bill of Rights, just try finding this appellation in an abridged/collegiate dictionary. When I Google-searched, 5 out of the first 12 listings were musical references. Like matters of the heart, a sacred trust is better sung of than defined.

That's what's so peculiar about this anomaly for the peculiar people known as Quakers.

Not only…

Birthright: If it please the Court of Quaker Opinion, we birthright Quakers honor the human families that gave us the privilege of being Friends. We have the benefit of a history of persecution to recommend us.

Adoption: Called to, as with our father Abraham, a new existence, we honor the divine dispensation. We are to benefit the history of salvation.

Birthright: Honor thy father and mother so as to secure a long life upon the earth.

Adoption: Rather, hesitate to honor…

How is the world's best dad like the world's first war?

Out of the mouths of babes, Dadaism was the bold, brash reaction to WWI. Its non-conventional proponents, like the Levelers at the time of our Society's beginning, scorned the political intrigue and royal prerogative that suffered little ones in the battle zones of moral, if not world, domination.

So stark was the reality of desolation that words and images took on a surrealist mode of expression. Defiance, not unlike the…

Gathered: If it please the Court of Quaker Opinion, we Friends hold to the quietist, earlier known as spiritualist, mode of worship. We believe that God can and will gather our Meetings irrespective of vocal ministry.

Covered: May it interest the Court that there is an historical acknowledgment by the Western religions of the world that people assemble via pilgrimage-like procession to the place of worship. In addition, worshipers are first gathered by means of some sort of human…