Of bath water and plastic ducks Photo: Photo: Russell Trow / flickr CC
Of bath water and plastic ducks
Ann Barnes considers the challenge of ‘coming home’
Coming to Quakers quite late in life I am constantly struck by how many people, like myself, have reached this place by a rather circuitous route. Coming home Some of those journeys will have taken in membership of one or more other churches, time in the wilderness and exploration of different faiths; some have involved just a moving-on from a place of disillusionment with the church of their upbringing. This ‘coming home’ from a long search for a spiritual base seems a common experience, but it also seems that most new Quakers come with a sound knowledge base of what Christianity is about, even though rejection of erstwhile accepted aspects of it is part of the process.
