Johanna Jackson and I speak about the problems of politeness and buried conflict in Quaker meetings in this week’s FJ author chat. We tried not to get too specific about conflicts we’ve seen in our own Quaker experiences: what matters is not necessarily individual instances (people can be jerks, this is understood) but a pattern of not reconciling and healing that many Friends and would-be Friends have observed.
How do we reshape the culture in our meetings to allow for more vulnerability and healthy emotions and how do we heal from conflicts that happened years or decades ago but still shape our meetings? Johanna’s article, Beyond Politeness, appears in the current issue of Friends Journal.
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