No, RantWoman is not thinking of changing her own pronouns. RantWoman is called though to be faithful to a call often to say "pronouns are an essay question." Continuing revelation means RantWoman keeps learning new reasons to say this.
Last Week's FCNL Witness Wednesday Prompt
from Deb Hjel of
I am part of a monthly reading group organized by La Jolla Friends Meeting in California to study Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship, about Quakers, African Americans and the myth of racial justice. The authors, McDaniel and Julye, tell a story of Abby Kelley Foster, the mid-eighteenth century abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. She separated herself from her Friends Meeting, when they said that they must wait to work against enslavement “until the Lord opens the way.” (p. 92)
“As way opens” is a traditional Quaker statement, yet Foster called it “blasphemy… He never shut the way.”
Is work for peace and social action something that can wait for the appropriate time? How does our discernment proceed in the face of injustice?
Today's RFCNL Witness Wednesday prompt
From Larissa Sanhuesa quoting Amanda Gorman
When day comes, we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry. A sea we must wade.
We braved the belly of the beast.
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace, and the norms and notions of what “just” is isn’t always justice.
- Amanda Gorman
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