Welcome
Joseph Jones welcomes readers to the bumper Quaker Week edition of The Friend
Some years ago I visited Holy Trinity Church on Clapham Common in south London. The rector was very proud to show me around, but it was quite unlike a Quaker Meeting house. On the wall were paintings of a series of nineteenth-century gentlemen. Then the rector pointed to an old, well-worn table. ‘This is the table upon which William Wilberforce wrote the antislavery act,’ he said proudly. ‘We now use this table every Sunday for communion.’ I was struck by how, in this ordinary physical object, the spiritual life and the political one were brought together with powerful historical force.
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