Join us! We have work to do.

That is all to say: are your sure that the ultimate origin of this term is scripture? Or ineffable spiritual experience?

I think the term Friend fundamentally refers to feeling of non-romantic intimacy common to religious experience. Other religions have arrived at the same terminology independently-- such as the sufis who are called "friends of God" and who call God "the Friend."

Merci, vous avez fait un très bon choix.

What are you going to do? At what point do you believe drastic action is needed? They are testing the bounds of law with their evil. It is time you test the bounds of law with your righteousness. There is no other way to build a strong opposition.

The Public Universal Friend (1752-1819) was a genderless preacher who dressed in a combination of men’s and women’s clothing and fought for the rights of indigenous people and the equality of the sexes, leading others to call them a heretic and a false prophet.

Inaction is in many ways more insidious than harmful action. It lies hidden in nice sounding platitudes about neutrality, avoiding partisanship, and more recently for personal mental well-being. But "the opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference." -Elie Wiesel

Were it so simple to define the beliefs of a people who have contempt for formal creeds!

In this state of fear, our mind is like a clenched fist and without attention to the Light our reactions can very unintentionally cause pain.

In what ways do you find Quakers to be unchristian?