Being a Quaker: Commitment and community

Marisa Johnson considers a challenge facing Friends today

by Marisa Johnson 25th May 2012

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’.