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links added, one quote for social justice added
author ht
date Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:53:22 -0500
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--- a/but_a_way.xml	Sun Nov 25 14:19:18 2018 -0500
+++ b/but_a_way.xml	Mon Dec 10 17:53:22 2018 -0500
@@ -1,16 +1,19 @@
 <?xml version='1.0'?>
 <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../../lib/xml/doc.xsl" ?>
 <!DOCTYPE doc SYSTEM "../../lib/xml/doc.dtd" >
-<doc>
+<doc xmlns:x="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  <head>
   <title>Not a notion but a way</title>
   <author>Henry S. Thompson</author>
   <date>9 January 2017</date>
+  <style>.bib p {clear: right; float: right; width: 75%; margin-top: 0pt}
+         .bib name {display: inline-block}
+         .bib div {clear: both}</style>
  </head>
  <body>
   <div>
    <title>Introduction</title>
-   <p><emph>God, words and us</emph> is a good thing to have done,
+   <p><emph>God, words and us</emph> <link href="#hr">[Rowlands 2017]</link> is a good thing to have done,
 thoughtful, worth reading but, for me, ultimately disappointing, an opportunity
 missed.  Maybe focussing on the language that divides us was necessary, and the
 light this book shines on the nature of that division, what is and isn't
@@ -34,14 +37,12 @@
 belief.  Acknowledging this points us towards a better way to distinguish
 ourselves, by shifting the focus from belief to practice, from
 ortho<emph>doxy</emph> to ortho<emph>praxy</emph>.</p>
-   <p>I don't claim originality in suggesting this:  John Punshon pretty much writes exactly this in 
-QF&amp;P 20.18, and I think it's at the heart
+   <p>I don't claim originality in suggesting this:  John Punshon <link href="#jp">[Punshon 1987]</link> pretty much writes exactly this, and I think it's at the heart
 of what Ben Pink Dandelion has been writing and saying for some time.</p>
   </div>
   <div>
    <title>We already know this</title>
    <p>Some well-known phrases illustrate the point:</p>
-   <note>[Still need a quote for equality/justice testimony]</note>
    <list type="naked">
     <item>Let your life speak</item>
     <item>Be patterns, be examples</item>
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@
     <item>... in the manner of Friends</item>
     <item>Swear not at all</item>
     <item>Live simply</item>
+    <item>[A]lleviate suffering and seek positive social change</item>
     <item>[L]ive in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars</item>
    </list>
    <p>And an old family story:</p>
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@
    <p>This emphasis on what we <emph>do</emph> as Quakers puts us, according to
 Karen Armstrong, in line with the origins of the great monotheist religions:</p>
    <display><p>"Religion as defined by the great sages of India, China, and the Middle East was not a notional activity but a practical one; it did not require belief in a set of doctrines but rather hard, disciplined work..."</p>
-   <p><emph>The Case for God</emph>, 2000</p></display>
+   <p><link href="#ka">[Armstrong 2000]</link></p></display>
    <p>Armstrong suggests that contemporary Judaism and Islam have retained
 their original self-definitions centred on orthopraxy ("uniformity of religious
 practice"), whereas Christian denominations in the
@@ -128,5 +130,19 @@
 explain, we know that what we do <emph>does</emph> work for us.  So sure, keep trying
 to figure out why.  But meantime, keep cheerfully practicing.</p>
   </div>
+  <div class="bib">
+   <title>References</title>   
+    <x:div><name>[Armstrong 2000]</name><p id="ka"> Armstrong, Karen, <emph>The Case for
+God</emph>.  Knopf, New York, 2000.</p></x:div>
+    <x:div><name>[Punshon 1987]</name><p id="jp"> Punshon, John, <emph>Encounters with silence: reflections
+from the Quaker tradition</emph>, pp. 44&ndash;45.  Quaker Home Service,
+London, 1987.  Also Friends United Press,
+Richmond Indiana, 2006.  As quoted in <emph>Quaker
+Faith and Practice</emph>, The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of
+Friends (Quakers) in Britain, 1995.  Available online at <link href="https://qfp.quaker.org.uk/passage/20-18/">QF&amp;P 20.18</link></p></x:div>
+    <x:div><name>[Rowlands 2017]</name><p id="hr"> Rowlands, Helen ed. <emph>God, words and
+us</emph>.  Quaker Books, London, 2017.</p></x:div>
+   
+  </div>
  </body>
 </doc>