Christ, mystery and faith
Cap Kaylor, in the second of two personal reflections on Quakerism in America, considers the challenge facing Friends today
The loss of a broad cultural ethos, outlined in the article last week, with its presumed Christian narrative, has, I believe, left liberal Quakerism adrift: progressive and compassionate, but conflicted and incoherent – the ‘Democratic party at prayer’ – a faith increasingly reduced to a system of ethics devoid of any mystical content. If we have substituted a progressive social agenda in place of a core Christian faith, do our spiritual longings have anywhere to go?
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