Testimony to Equality

The Religious Society of Friends has always had a progressive agenda, but we can’t rest on our laurels, says Jonathan Dale

by Jonathan Dale 1st October 2009

Our testimony to equality stems from our experience of a divine love for all at the heart of the universe. This love is oblivious to wealth, status and power. It was this conviction that led early Friends to refuse to doff their hats to social ‘superiors’; even today Friends tend not to use titles and many do not accept honours either. But it is this original, underlying religious understanding that we need to hold on to. There is, indeed, that of God in everyone, and so we need to build all our relationships, personal and political, near and far, and all our actions in the world, on the basis of this experience.