Faith – What’s God got to do with it?

Michael Wright was stimulated and challenged by a recent conference

by Michael Wright 14th February 2014

‘Faith – What’s God got to do with it?’ was the title of a thought-provoking one-day conference held in January at Friends House in London. As I went to it I wondered if it would be a polemical event. Happily, it wasn’t: it was Quakerly, mutually respectful and informative. Each of the addresses arose from deep reading, reflection and creative insights.  What emerged, for me, was that not only the speakers, but also all the participants I encountered during the day, share similar experiences – but they account for them in rather different language. It is words that cause us problems, rather than the experiences.