![]() ![]() As a community that listens patiently for the truth, Quakers provide a unique place for creativity. We’re exhorted to “let our lives speak”, and I often feel like my life doesn’t have much to say. In the light of our high ideals, it can be hard for individual Quakers not to feel inadequate. Because we believe in everyone’s direct, personal experience of God, we don’t have set services instead our worship takes place in unscripted Meetings, where the silence is broken only when someone (and it can be anyone) is inspired to say something. Known officially as the Religious Society of Friends, from our Christian beginnings as the “Friends of Light”, the Quakers are a community without a priesthood or an official creed, but believing in truth, peace, simplicity and equality. Modern Quakerism, it goes without saying, doesn’t feature many people who look like that – although we still retain a reputation as trustworthy, unpretentious, wholesome and unthreateningly eccentric. ![]() ![]() M ention the Quakers, and often the image that springs to mind is the face of porridge oats: a white-haired man in a wide-brimmed hat. ![]()
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