From beacon to renaissance: Sungsoo Kim explores the thread connecting Isaac Crewdson and the 1895 Manchester Conference

‘If faith is rooted in the experience of the Inward Light, it can fearlessly welcome all truth.’

by Sungsoo Kim 10th July 2026

To step into Mount Street Meeting House in Manchester is to stand at the geographic crossroads of modern British Quaker history. Sixty years apart, this city (which will host Yearly Meeting this month) served as the stage for two seismic events that completely redefined the theological landscape of London Yearly Meeting (now Britain Yearly Meeting).