Thee Quaker is a podcast started earlier this year by Jon Watts and Georgia Sparlin.
In their first episode, titled “Who Are the Modern Quakers”, they discuss the many different flavors of Quakers today.
There are Evangelical Quakers with loud boisterous worship meetings, unprogrammed Quakers who worship in silence, and many semi-programmed variations in between.
There are Catholic Quakers and Muslim Quakers and they even know of a Quaker who identifies as a shaman.
With so many different types of people, basic beliefs and worship styles, Sparling asked what it is that actually makes someone a Quaker.
One answer they proposed is the fundamental belief stated by Quaker founder George Fox in the 1600s: there is “that of God” in everyone.
If you’re Evangelically bent and you have that of God in you of course you’ll want to sing and dance and say it out loud. At the other extreme, unprogrammed meetings for worship use the silence to listen to that still, small voice that comes from that of God in us.
If you believe there is that of God in everyone, you’ll want to live by the testimonies of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality, and stewardship because those all shape how we interact with all the other people who have that of God in them.
You can find the Thee Quaker podcast on most podcast outlets and at their website quakerpodcast.com.
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