As miserable as sin: Margaret Cook listens to Milton Keynes Friends rethink Augustine

24 Feb 2022 | by Margaret Cook

‘What has 1,700 years of this kind of persistent negativity done to the western psyche?’

‘What would change if we really did trust our own goodness – if we made space for loving and accepting ourselves?’ | Photo: Saint Augustine by Joseph Brown (Holy Cross Monastery, New York)

Late last year, Friends in Milton Keynes focussed on the hymn ‘Dear Lord and Father of Mankind’, written by the nineteenth-century Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Verse three describes Jesus withdrawing to the hills ‘to share with Thee/the silence of eternity interpreted by love.’

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