Love is God

Barbara Harris found a home in Quakerism

by Barbara Harris 2nd December 2011

As a child I was sent to the Church of England Sunday School and to the Baptist Church and I fidgeted my time away through compulsory school assemblies. I came away with not very much in terms of religion but a love of hymns, a visceral rejection of sermons, particularly those delivered by scrub-faced curates who looked as if a harsh wind had never blown in their faces, and the tenet ‘God is love’ stubbornly embedded in my brain.