Getting hitched: James Priestman is taken for a ride
‘I resolved to spend four weeks hitchhiking, to talk to people about the Quaker testimonies.’
The number of Friends in the UK is declining. Information about the Quakers tends to be passed on by word of mouth or social media, which means that it tends to be communicated to people who are known to existing Quakers and therefore similar to them. By contrast, the early beliefs of the Religious Society of Friends were spread to people of different classes and creeds by itinerant preachers.
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