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--- a/but_a_way_short.html Thu Dec 14 10:13:39 2017 -0500 +++ b/but_a_way_short.html Thu Dec 14 10:17:04 2017 -0500 @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ <i>believe</i>, but by what we <i>do</i>.</p><p>If you only look at the language of belief, you miss a whole different way of looking at religious identity. Choices with respect to the language of belief are what distinguish many, even most, Christian denominations, but -that's something Quakers have declined to play: we don't do creeds. And we're not the only religion that +that's something Quakers have stood aside from: we don't do creeds. And we're not the only religion that isn't best understood in terms of belief, and recognising that points us towards a better way to distinguish ourselves, by shifting the focus from belief to practice, from ortho<i>doxy</i> to ortho<i>praxy</i>.</p><p>I don't claim originality in suggesting this: John Punshon pretty much