A new Quakerism?

Craig Barnett discerns signs of new birth in British Quakerism

by Craig Barnett 20th December 2013

Is a new form of the Quaker Way emerging for the twenty-first century? Throughout our history British Quakers have been able to transform our Society when old forms no longer served as vehicles for the Spirit. Each period of Quaker history, from eighteenth-century Quietism to nineteenth-century Evangelicalism and twentieth-century Liberalism, began with a creative renewal of spirituality and witness. As each of these forms gradually diminished in relevance and vitality, a new transformation of Quakerism emerged to meet contemporary needs.