Ben Cox on the Foxtrot pilgrimage.
A Quaker experience
Ben Cox describes his experiences at a Quaker school
I am, and believe that I always will be, an atheist. From early in my school education I was presented with many ideas about God, stories of the Bible and was preached to by the local vicar every Friday morning. We learnt about the various cultures and religions and I was reasonably interested in their varying beliefs and practices but nothing really caught my attention, until now. I came to Sidcot in 2006 on 5 September, which was, coincidentally, my birthday. It was scary of course, having never boarded before, being thrust into a house with twenty-four other boys, some of whom were a good deal bigger than me and had been there a considerably longer. Mostly, though, I remember the questions from home. These generally started with: how are things with you? And ended with: so what is this Quakerism all about?
