Singing adventurously: Mark Waistell on music, outreach, and the muse

‘My life as a singer-songwriter has parallels with my life as a Quaker.’

by Mark Waistell 18th July 2025

There’s a quote from William Penn that many Friends are fond of: ‘True godliness don’t turn men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavours to mend it.’ But perhaps we forget that it goes on, ‘Not to hide their light under a bushel but set it on a table in a candlestick’.