Thought for the Week: People and principles

Ian Kirk-Smith reflects on people and principles

by Ian Kirk-Smith 14th April 2017

For centuries Quakers did not celebrate any religious holidays because of a deeply held belief that all days are ‘holy days’. Public fasts and feasts were ‘devised in man’s will’ and, therefore, not ‘in God’s will.’ The same emphasis on inner spiritual life over outward ceremony was behind the early Quaker rejection of baptism.