Thought for the Week: Looking afresh

With current events in mind Michael Wright looks afresh at the time of the birth of Quakerism in the 'Thought for the Week'

by Michael Wright 15th January 2016

The current slaughter by militant Islamists of fellow religionists of a different tradition has parallels in the way in which Christians behaved in the aftermath of the Reformation, and at the time of the birth of Quakerism.

The ‘thirty years war’ (1618-1648) was one of the longest and most destructive wars in European history. Huge numbers were killed. Protestants and Catholics began it and the conflict ended with state against state.