Progressive Friends

Martina Weitsch is inspired by two books by American Friend Chuck Fager that tell the story of Progressive Friends

by Martina Weitsch 5th September 2014

Last year I spent three months at Pendle Hill near Philadelphia. One of the things that made that time special was encountering Chuck Fager, who was there undertaking research into a branch of American Quakerism called Progressive Friends.

Chuck is known as a prolific, if sometimes controversial, writer on a range of Quaker themes. Meeting him in person was a treat and witnessing his emerging research results proved to be one of the most intellectually stimulating aspects of my time at Pendle Hill.