Faith and Discernment
March 2006 • $5 Quaker Thought FRIENDS and Life OURNAL Today "SEEING" DIFFERENTLY, SHARING OUR TRUTHS An • AMONG FRIENDS independent magazine serving Faith and Discernment the Religious Society ne of the things that fi rst attracted me to Quakerism was the openness of of friends Friends to a variety of spiritual paths. I was not raised as a Quaker, and at the 0 point in my early adulthood when I began to encounter considerable Quaker Editorial thought, I'd been actively exploring a number of traditions ranging from several Susan Corson-Finnerty (Publishn- and Executive Editor}, Robert Dockhorn (Smior Editor), Rebecca Protestant denominations and the Roman Catholic Church to exposure to Hasidic Howe (Assistant Editor), Judith Brown (Poetry Editor}, Judaism, Zen Buddhism, Native American spirituality, and involvement with Sufism as Ellen Michaud (Book Review Editor), J. Brent Bill (Assistant Book Review Editor}, Joan Overman (Book practiced in the West. Mysticism had begun to stand out as a very real thread for me and &view Assistant), Christine Rusch (Mikstones Editor), was certainly central to my growing understanding ofm yselfas a Christian, albeit a non Robert Marks, George Rubin (News Editon), Kara Newell (Columnist), Marjorie Schier (Copyeditor), doctrinaire one. Quakerism with its emphasis on direct revelation spoke to my own Patty Quinn (Voluntur) experience powerfully, and the openness and honesty with which Friends offered their Production personal revelations was both refreshing and compelling. I appreciated Friends' under Barbara Bemon (An Director}, Alia Podolsky (Assistant Art Director}, Peter Deitz (Web Managn-) standing that revelation is ongoing, and that each of us has a pan to play in human Advertising, Circulation, Development comprehension of the Divine.
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