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Russell Sprout's avatar

A Shaker meeting? The "no sex" Shakers? There are two Shakers left in the whole world. That's got to be a Quaker meeting, right?

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Jocette (Jo)'s avatar

I remember when we had a new pastor who resigned after just two weeks because the church refused to switch from grape juice to wine (it was a Protestant church). He threw a fit, accusing us of not being “real Christians.” But the congregation was simply being considerate — we had people recovering from alcoholism, and many parents preferred grape juice so their kids could participate too. It struck me as one of those small details that ends up dividing people into “for” and “against” camps — a very predictable (and frankly, silly) part of human nature.

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