We are all Quakers

Michael Wright offers a personal reflection on his nontheism

by Michael Wright 24th March 2017

Gerald Drewett, writing in the Friend in the January 27 edition, is ‘puzzled as to what nontheism is supposed to stand for’. Noël Staples, in the edition of 10 February, suspects many nontheists experience ‘some sort of mysterious power, energy or whatever, which they cannot explain, yet which has a generally benevolent effect upon them’.

It is as impossible to speak for all Quaker nontheists as it is to speak for all Quakers. I hope it may help many Friends to understand if I simply speak for myself, and describe what I think it stands for, and what I experience as a Quaker.