tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post3635751752668924931..comments2024-02-15T10:49:30.829-08:00Comments on mil gracias: What’s up with Quakers and the Bible?Nancy Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12660294694426043259noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-59036465985630287462013-03-20T01:26:55.492-07:002013-03-20T01:26:55.492-07:00Thank you, Vail, for these references which I inte...Thank you, Vail, for these references which I intend to follow through on and make available in our meeting. I wish your book were finished. Blessings.Nancy Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660294694426043259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-33667264081133687262013-03-20T01:24:44.566-07:002013-03-20T01:24:44.566-07:00Thank you! I will make these resources available t...Thank you! I will make these resources available to others in our congregation. In fact, one of our objectives in this beginning part of the conversation is to gather important resources.Nancy Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660294694426043259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-57962490584330316992013-03-20T01:23:01.903-07:002013-03-20T01:23:01.903-07:00You are brave. I flounder at read-the-Bible-in-a-y...You are brave. I flounder at read-the-Bible-in-a-year programs. But I see the value in the broad overview it would give. Bless you.Nancy Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660294694426043259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-65053391888731560522013-03-20T01:21:21.107-07:002013-03-20T01:21:21.107-07:00Yes, I think that what you call "worship shar...Yes, I think that what you call "worship sharing" will have to be part of our process. Having to work through this topic together gives us an incredible opportunity to be the church.Nancy Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12660294694426043259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-61887804698875045502013-03-18T13:23:32.498-07:002013-03-18T13:23:32.498-07:00This is an issue that I have believed for some yea...This is an issue that I have believed for some years to be a primary challenge for Friends today. Cheers for Douglas Bennett's contributions! I have become convinced that the earliest Friends did more than just take the Bible as a"secondary authority" -- they had a distinctive (but not unique) way of reading the Bible -- "with empathy" -- which was the source of some of their radical insights: women's ministry, "Lamb's War" peace testimony, etc. -- and which was lost to later generations. See my essays, "Early Friends and the Bible: Some Observations" (Quaker Religious Thought " 80 [Mar. 1993]) and "Did William Penn Diverge Significantly from George Fox in his Understanding of the Quaker Message?" (Quaker Studies vol. 11, no. 1 [Sept. 2006]) I am working slowly on a book that will deal at some length and depth on the history of Quaker Bible interpretations ("Friends, God, and the Bible" -- but that is still more than a year or two from completion. Outside of Quaker circles, "The Good Book" by Peter Gomes gives one example of how issues of human sexuality might be addressed from an empathetic-approach-to-the-Bible perspective. Daniel Smith-Christopher in "Jonah, Jesus, and Other Good Coyotes" helps us to see the Bible itself as an ongoing dialogue between varying perspectives on crucial issues. I think trying to read the Bible empathetically today would take place best in a context of open-hearted and -minded dialogue , Vail PalmerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-39956613173658347112013-03-18T12:21:55.295-07:002013-03-18T12:21:55.295-07:00You may want to look at these articles in Friends ...You may want to look at these articles in Friends Journal:<br /><br />http://www.friendsjournal.org/homosexuality-a-plea-to-read-the-bible-together/<br /><br />http://www.friendsjournal.org/toward-a-testimony-of-intimacy/<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12131891284877656762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-91297043119494950402013-03-18T11:31:36.802-07:002013-03-18T11:31:36.802-07:00As someone who has a fairly checkered history with...As someone who has a fairly checkered history with the Bible, this is a useful post for me, and I thank you for it. This year, I and some other Friends have embarked on a "read the Bible in one year" program. We are nearly three months in, and I'm pleased to report that I haven't given up yet (this is actually fairly shocking to me). I just decided that it was finally time for me to try to deal with my own Bible-related ambiguity, in my own way, and on my own terms (authority issues, anyone?). Some of it has been wonderful, some dead boring, some troubling, and some comforting. Kind of like life. Thanks again for speaking to my condition. --Mia Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-25907387410047628532013-03-18T08:55:44.518-07:002013-03-18T08:55:44.518-07:00The answer is not to avoid references to the Bible...The answer is not to avoid references to the Bible. The answer is to allow Friends to each share their own, hopefully Spirit-inspired, understanding of the Biblical references each deems appropriate to the conversation.<br /><br />One useful format for sharing about such a sensitive matter is worship sharing, where each can share what wells up in them about the subject without having to fear someone attacking them in response. This, of course, is a preliminary step which needs to lead to consideration in a form where there is dialogue.Bill Samuelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00752443575410023776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834234576639473297.post-63871758902801821902013-03-18T08:20:43.023-07:002013-03-18T08:20:43.023-07:00Jesus question to Peter: Who do you say I am?
Mar...Jesus question to Peter: Who do you say I am?<br /><br />Margaret Fell: What canst thou say?<br /><br />I am not a good source of bibliography but what different understandings of the Bible and key stories or concepts might be reflected in the work of different scholars or writers?<br /><br />Would some of this work help till the soil for individual and community discernment?RantWomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611656459134372290noreply@blogger.com