Laura Rogers
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What does "worship" mean to a nontheistic Quaker?
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Mike Wine
The Greek word translated as worship by most versions is PROSKUNEO. Etymologically it’s a two part word: toward-flow. So I tend toward an ultra-literal sense of flowing toward the good.
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Taz Cooper
Mike Wine Toward-kiss, I thought? πρός, pros (towards) and κυνέω, kyneo (kiss).
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Kerry O'Regan
Spending time in awe and wonder at the mystery of it all.
And gratitude. Meister Eckhart says that if Thank you is the only prayer we ever pray, that is enough.
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Jennifer Ergler Robinson
Listening, deep within and perhaps beyond one's self.
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Barbara Richardson-Todd
Giving worth to everyone
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Ruth Kettle
The category 'nontheistic Quakers' covers a very wide spectrum of different people and perspectives.
When I reflect on what worship and prayer mean to Quakers, it becomes clear that waiting and listening can be focused on the love that we have within us without personification, transcendent or otherwise.
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James Lavoy
This is why I love the Quaker term “meeting”.
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Zara Richter
Group meditation on the collective we
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Joshua Peter Phillips
I guess I would need to know what it means to be a non-theistic Quaker before I could answer that question.
I am sure a non-theistic expression of ritual could occur.
But worship, like love needs an object of worship or affection. Someone presumably would just choose to worship something that is not God.
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