A signpost, pointing to one side with 'Future', and the other side with 'Past'. Photo: By Hadija via Unsplash.
Future tense: Geoff Fielding outlines the ongoing potential of Quakerism
‘We are made for lives of peace.’
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?