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Alex Wildwood discusses belief and experience

Speaking of God – or not

Alex Wildwood discusses belief and experience

by Alex Wildwood 5th October 2018

Just before Yearly Meeting this year, a headline appeared in a national newspaper: ‘The Quakers are right. We don’t need God’, with the strapline: ‘The group is considering dropping God from its meetings guidance as it makes some feel uncomfortable…’

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