Open for transformation: Being Quaker
Philip Allum writes about the 2014 Swarthmore Lecture
Open For Transformation: Being Quaker is, for me, one of the most important and timely Swarthmore Lectures for a long time. I write from the perspective of one of the majority of British Friends who was not at Bath to hear the lecture by Ben Pink Dandelion at first hand. However, I have read the book and watched a recording available via the internet. One of the purposes of the Swarthmore lectureship is to interpret to Friends something of their message and mission: to feel the pulse of the contemporary Religious Society of Friends in Britain. And this lecture does just that. I find it refreshing to read a Quaker author these days who is honest enough, and not afraid, to talk about God in explicit ‘God language’.
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