The naked truth on climate change?
Where can we find Quaker prophecy today?
I was interested to read Chris Walker’s challenge to us all (6 November). His central challenge of taking faith-inspired action is one that needs to be heeded. My mind flitted back to some recent reading. Christopher Hill’s study of the English civil war gives considerable coverage to the emergence of the Quaker movement. Among the individual stories and overall narrative, one practice stuck in my mind – the early Quaker practice of going naked for a sign. This act of prophecy is now consigned to the dustbin of history, but I hope the spirit of public prophecy remains.
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