Testimonies: Ol Rappaport on a Quaker paradox

‘Our testimonies were never meant to be bullet points on a poster.’

by Ol Rappaport 24th October 2025

Our testimonies were once a defining feature of Quakerism. Enigmatically, they were like the Rollright Stones or the weapons of Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition: their number changed whenever anyone tried to count them. For me, that was part of their mystical charm: they were elusive, real, and they guided us.