Reflections on the ‘Red Book’: Location is everything!
A Friend writes about the importance of engagement
We know that Jesus identified himself with the suffering and the sinful, the poor and the oppressed. We know that he went out of his way to befriend social outcasts. We know that he warned us against the deceitfulness of riches, that wealth and great possessions so easily come between us and God, and divide us from our neighbours. The worship of middle-class comfort is surely a side-chapel in the temple of Mammon. It attracts large congregations, and Friends have been known to frequent it… In brief, he makes us all ashamed that we are not all out in caring for our fellow-men.
H G Wood, 1958
Quaker faith & practice 23.03
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