Are we scared?

Jill Allum is inspired by one of the essays of the 2009 Friends Quarterly essay competition.

by Jill Allum 25th March 2011

Have we really listened to the challenge of our three prize-winning essayists of 2009? The competition received one hundred and six entries, some of them fifty pages long, and I would like to focus on the essay of one of the second prize-winners, Simon Best. The judges called it ‘the most radical challenge… taking us back to what we should be – a worshipping group.’