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‘I begin with the need for us all to wake up.’

Rise and shine: Richard Thompson’s Thought for the Week

‘I begin with the need for us all to wake up.’

by Richard Thompson 14th February 2025

An amazing number of insights are to be found in Rex Ambler’s Truth of the Heart. I have chosen a number of quotations he finds from George Fox, from around 360 years ago. But we need to put them into words of our century, from our experience of the state of our politics. The uncomfortable truth is that we are more open to radical change through shock.