QuakerSpeak, February 2024

“Putting language on the experience of that of God within us, I think, is a risky business,” says Christopher Sammond. “Any language is inadequate, and language that I might use will not speak to somebody else.”

In the most-watched video of our tenth season, Christopher shared his thoughts on the difficulty of putting the experience of encountering Spirit into words. “It wasn’t just a little leading or a hearing or giving some vocal ministry that felt like it had some power to it,” he says of one such moment. “It was really experiencing that, what we talk about in Friends, as everyone has that of God within them.”


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Produced by Christopher Cuthrell

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