I recently said in an interview with Friends Journal that I would like to challenge Friends to get clear about our relationship with the internet.
Getting clear would look like one of these two things:
A. We come together as Friends and find unity to FULLY REJECT casual use of the internet.
(If the idea makes you snort in disbelief, consider the precedence of our previous outward testimonies: rejection of war, alcohol, slavery)
or
B. We EMBRACE the internet as a powerful tool with which Friends can spread the word about our ministries, as the Early Quakers did with the printing press.
We are at a mighty crossroads in history. There is no excuse for us to be doing this half-in/half-out thing.
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