Tag: Quaker spirituality

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: Rapidly Evolving Quakerism

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: Rapidly Evolving Quakerism

    Sunday, June 10, 1866 Milton, Lizzie and I went to Walnut Ridge to meeting. Enos Prey was there and preached a pretty extensive sermon. E Osborn also preached. There was preaching outdoors. Also the new meeting house is quite commodious but would not contain more than half the people. Went to Joseph Butler’s for dinner.…

  • Reconstruction Diary Meditations: Drawing Back a Veil

    Reconstruction Diary Meditations: Drawing Back a Veil

    Sunday, May 27, 1866 Lizzie and I went to meeting to Elmgrove. Isaac Trueblood and his daughters Miriam & Mary were there. Meeting was small. In the afternoon Milton, Lizzie & Ella Hubbard went up to a spiritual meeting at Greensboro. The speaker was Mrs. Mitchell. They enjoyed it pretty well [and] stopped at Bales’s…

  • Finding Silence: A Quaker’s Refuge in a Catholic Adoration Chapel

    Finding Silence: A Quaker’s Refuge in a Catholic Adoration Chapel

    I’m not Catholic. But I’ve come to appreciate several elements of Catholicism.  With the closest unprogrammed–or silent–Quaker meeting about 30 minutes away, sometimes I need a dose of Catholicism, or at least my version. Unprogrammed Friends meetings near me are hard to find these days. I know of only two within an hour’s drive. To…