Quakerism: sharing your religion

Jessica Reed is startled to find that she is drawn to Quakers

by Jessica Reed 21st January 2010

A few weeks ago I mentioned in passing my growing interest in Quakerism to my colleagues at the Guardian’s online Belief section. They thought a short piece on Quaker Quest, which I had been attending for a couple of months, would be a good idea, and asked me to pen it. I wrestled for a few weeks trying to put my feelings into words (my main difficulty being that I had to write about something I was still in the process of figuring out), but the article was finally published a week ago. More than 250 reader comments later with a few jokes about oats and Cadbury’s chocolate thrown in for good measure, it is fair to say the piece received a lot of interest.