A: Because often they kind of suck, to paraphrase an excerpt from a new pamphlet just sent out in the QuakerYouth newsletter:
It can be tempting to look at the absence of young faces in our meeting houses and blame it on the ‘digital age’ or on young people needing ‘something more lively.’ However, I would like to hold up the possibility that people coming into Quaker meetings are not looking for a certain prevailing skin phenotype or age presence, but for the Spirit to be evident in the lives of the Friends who are there. I believe that they, like me, ache to have a spiritual community where they feel truly seen, truly held, and deeply challenged.
(From Coming into Friendship as a Gift by Christina Van Regenmorter)
“Friend speaks my mind,” as we say.
