A Man that Looks on Glass

Craig Barnett welcomes a provocative book on Quakerism today

by Craig Barnett 27th November 2015

In this searching and provocative new book (the title is taken from a poem by George Herbert), Derek Guiton diagnoses a crisis among British Quakers; that of ‘growing secularisation, the emergence of incompatible belief systems and a readiness, in very many cases, to embrace ideology as a substitute for faith’.