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Early Quakers and Imprisonment Why don’t Quakers go to prison any more? Well, they do. One of the longest-lasting British Quaker institutions is Meeting for Sufferings. It has picked up, and laid down, many functions since it was founded in 1675, and will itself be laid down next year, 2026, but the original purpose was…

This letter appeared in ‘the Friend’ on 21 October 2022 Antisemitism is racism, and an anti-racist church should work against it, as much as it should against racism targeting any other group. In what ways might the Religious Society of Friends’ (RSoF) institutional beliefs about Israel and Jews be shaped by the kind of thinking…

This letter appeared in the Friend on 16 June 2023 in reply to a previous letter by a Friend who was concerned that the Society had abandoned its Christian roots, as might be suggested by the vocabulary used by Friends. The name ‘Jesus’ appears about seventy-five times in the fifth edition of Quaker faith & practice.…