Quakers and creation: Going to a ‘better place’?

In the first of a new series on Quakers and creation, Stuart Masters considers the history of religious ambivalence towards the subject

by Stuart Masters 10th February 2012

Quakers in Britain have made a corporate commit-ment to become a low-carbon community – to being a people who live increasingly in harmony with the order of creation. Minute 36 of Yearly Meeting 2011 asserts that this commitment is consistent with our historic testimony: ‘…we are renewing our commitment to a sense of the unity of creation which has always been part of Friends’ testimonies’