The Quaker way
Alec Davison is impressed by an account of Quaker faith and spirituality
Most of those who become Quakers today will have made a spiritual journey to arrive at this destination. We are now a Society of convinced Friends rather than cradle Quakers. Many daughters and sons of Friends continue their parents’ questing and move beyond the Society, even if holding to Quaker values. Like Tony Philpott I have made that journey. So when his book, From Christian to Quaker: A spiritual journey from evangelical Christian to universalist Quaker, came to hand last Christmas, at that period of calm after the seasonal consumerist tsunami, I avidly devoured it, provoked in part by the implications of its title.
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