Thee and thou

Roland Carn muses on how George Fox might have spoken

We were eight of us in the car. A few weeks earlier we had all moved into one house to start an intentional, open, Quaker community in Pittsburgh. We had heard about Conservative Friends in Ohio and wanted to see what they were like. Friends welcomed us, wearing Quaker dress. ‘Welcome Friends,’ they said. ‘We are pleased to see thee. Will thou come this way. Judith will take the women to Women’s Meeting and Sam will take the men to Men’s Meeting.’

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