Simplicity: Has Quakerism lost its radical edge?
Anne de Gruchy, in the fifth article in her series on simplicity, asks whether our approach to simplicity has become lukewarm
Simplicity is not an easy testimony. For a start, the roots and meaning of the word are unclear. Early Friends urged plainness of dress and speech, printing and distributing testimonies against ‘excess in these things’, and in The Priests Fruits Made Manifest George Fox asked of the wealthy clergy ‘are these marks of a Christian’s life?’ But what does it mean to live out the testimony of simplicity, as we understand it today?
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