Well, let's turn this around. Suppose we were to learn that there is indeed a God, but - It - doesn't respond to any individual's prayers. How many people of faith would then say "God doesn't matter"?

Fascinating and well reported

To be clear, that's censorship via neglect and dismissal

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Lifelong love affair, here, with Victorian England and even more so, antebellum America

That's because Quaker Studies is dominated by Christocentric cis males who censor any Quaker history which they find embarrassing

Open secret: most (all?) ED poems can be sung to the tune "Yellow Rose of Texas" you're welcome.

A lot of historians will read that simplistically as sober with piety without considering it may have been sober with sarcasm. But your point remains a very substantive one nevertheless.

Congrats on earning a "Top LGBTQ Christian Books" entry at Q Spirit!

Should be of interest to @petersontoscano.bsky.social and @friendsjournal.org - after all, this novel (among other things) portrays Lucretia Mott at the pioneering New York Women's Conference, if nothing else...

I hope I can disagree without coming across as a troll. How can a handy and insightful list of virtues be any more restrictive than guidance routinely laid out in Book of Discipline? I much favor the former

Hast thee read The Charioteer?

Apparently the author is actually one Francis Thompson