Thought for the Week: What is a Quaker concern?

John Hall reflects on what a Quaker concern is

by John Hall 13th September 2013

George Fox said, in a sermon in Ulverston Church in 1652, ‘Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of the Light, and hast thou walked in the Light, and what thou speakest, is it inwardly from God?’ He was arguing against sole reliance on the Scriptures and for belief – for receptiveness to God within and to what Quakers came to call the Inward Light.