Being a Quaker: Commitment and community
Marisa Johnson considers a challenge facing Friends today
In my work I sometimes receive enthusiastic emails from people who have found Quakers and want to ‘join’ immediately. I have to counsel caution. Years ago the Friends World Committee for Consultation had to write to the authorities in Estonia to distance ourselves from a local group of a hundred or so people who registered themselves as ‘Quakers’.
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