By convincement
Jane Pearn reflects on being a Quaker
With some trepidation, I find myself wanting to write about God and membership of the Religious Society of Friends; and about that old-fashioned word, convincement. I first found Friends over thirty years ago, having moved away from the Anglican church and its theology, but not from what I understood by Christianity. However, without a group of people to support and challenge me, and to worship with, I gradually lost that sense of a guiding light. My life was full of activism and opinions, but seemed to have no centre.
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