Quakers in the World (North America): Our ‘sames’ go right to the bone

Ian Kirk-Smith and Trish Carn listen to Friends from North America in the second of our series on Quakers in the world

by Ian Kirk-Smith and Trish Carn 30th March 2012

‘We believe the Bible is the written word of God, accurate and fully authoritative in all it says.’

Some British Friends, steeped in a tradition of ‘the letter killeth and the spirit giveth life’, may be surprised to learn that this fidelity to the written word is promoted by a very influential branch of world Quakerism.