Small but perfectly formed

Judy Kirby reviews Ben Pink Dandelion's new book

by Judy Kirby 18th February 2010

Celebrating the Quaker Way by Ben Pink Dandelion. Quaker Books. ISBN 978 1 90712302 3 £2.50. Quakers like their theology pocket sized. I’m sure that’s why Advices & queries is so special. There’s something very Quakerly about a mobile text. In this tiny book Ben starts immediately to praise the riches of the liberal tradition in Britain. He says he has written the booklet for Quakers themselves.  ‘I write as a Quaker who came to meeting as an atheist/agnostic, drawn in by the peace testimony’, he writes, ‘an ex-anarchist, happy to find another place without leaders and without votes’.