Being a Quaker
Fred Langridge offers a personal response to the Tabular Statement
When I applied for membership of the Religious Society of Friends, ten years ago or so, it was not because I wanted to become a Quaker. It was because I felt, deep in my core, that I was a Quaker: I was seeking mutual, formal acknowledgement of this between my Meeting and me. When my Area Meeting recorded my acceptance into membership in a minute I felt recognised. I felt that the truth of me was made visible to others.
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