Letters - 07 October 2011
From political engagement to population
Political engagement
A part of my reason for looking again at the Friend is the history of my own membership of the Society of Friends. I am what used to be called a ‘birthright’ Friend, brought up on brave stories of resolution and championing of the right and the true, and have rarely attended Meeting in adult life because I sought the spirit of the Friends who pioneered social justice and – from our own beginnings, of course – civil rights.
In recent years, I have become ever more conscious of increasingly oppressive government control without good cause, and have been exploring what communities in this country are now doing the campaigning work that I have long felt that the community of Friends, with our historical commitment to civil and religious freedoms, should take up for ourselves.
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