Down to Earth: Paul Hodgkin says it’s time for a new kind of engagement

‘This is a moment of Copernican significance.’

by Paul Hodgkin 25th April 2025

One of the joys and responsibilities of Quakerism is that each generation has to renew its understanding of the sacred for its own changing times. Right now, I am finding my traditional Quaker responses to Trump/Ukraine/rearmament/climate/AI both true and underwhelming. My own comfortable life exists on one side of a pane of glass, the world’s great troubles on the other.