Future tense: Geoff Fielding outlines the ongoing potential of Quakerism

‘We are made for lives of peace.’

by Geoff Fielding 21st February 2025

I am one of the oldies and wrinklies of Quakerism. Fitting a common profile, I came to Quakers after sixty, and am a member of a Meeting that has no regular young attenders. So I was at first surprised to hear that, amid the statistical background to last year’s Future of British Quakerism Conference, some Friends were inspired. I might even suggest that, had George Fox been reading the same reports, he would not have been. Where, I imagine him asking, has the life, the vitality and the enthusiasm gone?