The Friends Jour­nal “From the Edi­tor’s Desk” blog began as ideas for future which I post­ed here on Quak­er Ranter. At a cer­tain point I real­ized I should share it on Friends Jour­nal web­site direct­ly. But I still want read­ers here to know about upcom­ing issues and to share them to poten­tial writ­ers. Don’t under­es­ti­mate your abil­i­ty to inspire: often an arti­cle’s birth starts with an expe­ri­enced friend sug­gest­ing a top­ic to a new writer. If you know a Quak­er who might have some­thing inter­est­ing to say on this top­ic, please share this with them. Here’s an excerpt to my Edi­tor’s Desk blog post.

Thin spaces is a term mys­tics use for those places where our human world and the Divine come clos­er togeth­er. They’ll often cite those his­toric sacred spaces that catch our breath when we enter, loca­tions where one can feel the echoes of gen­er­a­tions of worshipers.

But for Friends, every place has the poten­tial of being a thin space. Indeed, per­haps every place is already brim­ming over with divin­i­ty and only waits on our abil­i­ty to set­tle. Our phys­i­cal spaces tes­ti­fy to that ethos by mak­ing wor­ship rooms plain, uncon­se­crat­ed, and func­tion­al, and our wor­ship is based on a divine immi­nence that needs no pas­tor or litur­gi­cal ritual.

Learn more at the blog post Writ­ing Opp: Thin Spaces.