Thought for the Week: Completed Quakers

Charles Stevenson reflects on 'completed Quakers'

by Charles Stevenson 6th May 2016

Wilfrid Meynell, on forsaking the Religious Society of Friends of his upbringing for the Catholic church, described himself as a ‘completed Quaker’. He meant that he had absorbed all there was of Quakerism for him and, so, could move on. Fortunately for posterity, he did move on, for it was he who discovered and brought to the world the powerful religious poetry of Francis Thompson.