Thought for the Week: Divine Light and the light of reason

Mark Frankel argues that Quakers today need not worry about religious scepticism

by Mark Frankel 24th August 2012

The dichotomy between the divine and the secular, theism and nontheism, science and religion, God and man has occupied Friends for decades. Some Friends ask whether we are willing to be obedient to divine guidance if it goes against secular notions. Others worry that empirical science cannot demonstrate the existence of God. Happily, I believe, these dilemmas need not concern Quakers, who have understood from their founding days that such distinctions are meaningless.