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Allen’s Neck Friends Meeting
739 Horseneck Road
Dartmouth, MA
Meeting House Phone: 508/636-8910
Pastor: Peter Crysdale
Parsonage: 643 Horseneck Rd.
Dartmouth, MA 02748
Parsonage Phone: 508/636-2756
Clerk of the Meeting: Stan Stopka

July 2005

A Question

Sometimes Religion lulls folks into forgetting
The ultimate questions to which religion is an answer.

The task of religious seeking is to rediscover these questions.
Otherwise we settle for the questions of modernity

Like, What will I get out of life? And pretend this is
The question religion is the answer to. But in fact the

Question is more like: What will life get out of me?
The Bible is the answer to the question: What does

God require of human beings? To love God with all
Heart, mind, strength, soul? and to love neighbor

And yourself. This is the Word over and over, shown
In a multitude of words, songs, and colors.

As Rabbi Heschel says, Science gets the blame for the eclipse
Of religion in modern society. Religion declines, not because it was

Refuted but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, and
Insipid? In the silence there is an all encompassing Spirit

Calling in that same still small voice that the prophets heard.
Come, I will do a new thing in you, says the Lord.

Warm Greetings,   Peter

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