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Stuart Masters concludes his series on early Quakers and Creation

Quakers and creation: The unity of things

Stuart Masters concludes his series on early Quakers and Creation

by Stuart Masters 2nd March 2012

In England at the end of the English civil wars groups of Seekers, who had rejected all the available religious options of the day, began to meet together in silence to await a new revelation from God. These Seekers soon became part of the emerging Quaker movement. An experience of spiritual transformation turned their lives upside down and, in response, they found themselves travelling ‘in all countries, places, islands and nations’ turning the world upside down as they went.