Thought for the Week: Truth and turmoil

Linda Murgatroyd writes about truth, turmoil and the contribution of Quakers today

by Linda Murgatroyd 27th January 2017

Reflecting on the political upheavals of recent months in Britain and abroad, I have been wondering about the parallels with England at the time of the civil war in the seventeenth century. The deposing and beheading of Charles I was not envisaged at the outset of the war, but it became politically inevitable after his repeated refusal to negotiate. The real debates about policy only started after the Parliamentarians had gained some victories. Instability and intolerance continued for decades thereafter.