Status
Available
Call number
Collections
Publication
Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill Publications, 2017.
User reviews
LibraryThing member QuakerReviews
Davison describes what a gathered meeting is and lays out concrete things we can do to foster this experience of communion in our meetings more often. While it is impossible to fully convey spiritual experience in words, his descriptions may help us to avoid barriers and open to the way toward this quintessential Quaker experience of a shared sense of presence, knowledge of the Truth, unity, joy, and love. Some of his suggestions for worshippers and meetings may be familiar: come prepared, on time, seasoned by regular devotional practice, deepen the vocal ministry, hold the meeting and each other in the Light; but new and old, they are powerful seen together.
He declares that meetings need to take responsibility for preparing worshippers, with a robust religious education program about Quaker faith and practice, and a meaningful approach to spiritual formation. Rising to this challenge, both as individuals and meetings, can lead us to the distinctive form of spiritual experience that Friends can offer of the gathering presence of the Holy Spirit. And he points out that it is in this encounter that Quakerism remains a living evolving religion.… (more)
He declares that meetings need to take responsibility for preparing worshippers, with a robust religious education program about Quaker faith and practice, and a meaningful approach to spiritual formation. Rising to this challenge, both as individuals and meetings, can lead us to the distinctive form of spiritual experience that Friends can offer of the gathering presence of the Holy Spirit. And he points out that it is in this encounter that Quakerism remains a living evolving religion.… (more)
LibraryThing member kaulsu
This is a fabulous Pendleton Hill pamphlet. But I must ask: WHAT WERE THEY THINKING to name it after Thomas Kelly's book by the same title? Such a shame.
Davidson did a wonderful job of putting in writing how possible it is to remain open to the Lord, Spirit, Source (name it what you will) in religious venues that are unlike one's normal setting for worship. I especially found resonance with the notion that "we are all clerks" (25). Just as holding the recording clerk in the Light while contemporaneous minutes are being written produces demonstrably a better record, it would seem to me that Davidson's admonition that we all bear responsibility to listen for the movement of the Spirit, and to help move the body towards the Truth.… (more)
Davidson did a wonderful job of putting in writing how possible it is to remain open to the Lord, Spirit, Source (name it what you will) in religious venues that are unlike one's normal setting for worship. I especially found resonance with the notion that "we are all clerks" (25). Just as holding the recording clerk in the Light while contemporaneous minutes are being written produces demonstrably a better record, it would seem to me that Davidson's admonition that we all bear responsibility to listen for the movement of the Spirit, and to help move the body towards the Truth.… (more)
ISBN
9780875744445
Local notes
Pendle Hill Pamphlet 444
Similar in this library
Spreading the fire : challenging and encouraging Friends through travel in the ministry by Debbie Humphries
Individual spiritual discernment: Receiving, testing, and implementing leading from a higher power by Jerry Knutson
A Practical Mysticism: How Quaker process opens us to the promptings of the divine by Elizabeth Meyer
Coming to light : cultivating spiritual discernment through the Quaker clearness committee by Valerie Brown
Christianity and the inner life : twenty-first century reflections on the words of early Friends by Margery Post Abbott
On speaking out of the silence : vocal ministry in the unprogrammed meeting for worship by Douglas V. Steere
Words & testimonies : the Carey memorial lecture, Baltimore Yearly Meeting, 1971 by Thomas H. Silcock
Tall poppies : supporting gifts of ministry and eldering in the Monthly Meeting / Martha Paxson Grundy by Martha Paxson Grundy
Call number
CP 444