Don't Forget We're Here by Lamorna Ash
A friend just shared this link and some comments to a new book on that sounds really good:
The relevance for Quakers can be seen in this comment: From Quaker Theology group FB 1-20-26
Lamorna Ash (on British Quakers): “But the reason I didn’t stay in the end in the Quaker meeting house was because I think again having been brought up with no faith, I had no amateur of belief like I think I started to have this sense that one I needed something to wrestle with. I needed to hear scripture in the in the way of like an Anglican or a Catholic communion or any kind of um other forms of Christian denominations that are a bit more rigorous with the way that the structure works. And I wanted to hear sermons where people tried to make sense out of these extraordinary you wanted a bit more meat. I wanted some more meat and I wanted some bread and wine, you know. I wanted I wanted to something to hold on to, I think. Yeah. And I also had the sense within the Quaker meeting I was going to again that throughout the experience of writing the book I was going through quite a difficult time emotionally and it was really easy to slip away at the end. For some reason there was you shake hands to terminate the silence end of a Quaker meeting and they were the loveliest people but I somehow didn’t feel like it was asking very much of me and I could always just walk away.”
Here is a longer review of the book: www.anothermag.com/design-li…