A memoir of Quaker involvement with homosexuality. In 2009, Quakers in Britain decided to seek a change in the law to see same-sex marriage as equal to opposite-sex marriage.
This book of Quaker faith and practice is an attempt to express Truth through the vital personal and corporate experience of Friends. It is largely composed of extracts: a fitting way of expressing the breadth of Quaker theology.
Gerald Priestland's 1982 Swarthmore lecture draws on his experience in exploring the doctrines of the churches for insight into what doctrine can mean for Quakers.
What happens when we enter a Quaker meeting? There is silence, certainly, and sometimes from that, spoken ministry; a moment of reflection, inspiration; a movement of the spirit.