Though Fox's own Journal tells his life-story fully and vividly, some readers find it so detailed, and so quick to assume his reader's familiarity with situations, events and outlooks of his time that it is difficult to read or grasp it as a whole.
A humble stumble toward simplicity and grace. For ayone who is bad at being good. Living a life of faith is not as simple as it may look. In fact, it's often characterized more by stumbles than by grace.
Quakers write of their experience of the spirit of other faiths, including Animism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity and Quaker practice, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism.
These Minims are meant to be a comfort, in that if they come from the right place, some of them will resonate within the worship experience for you, confirming a true and gentle life-way or path we travel together in the face of the world's trials.
In this lecture, Jon Watts challenges Friends to consider how we can use modern communication tools such as the internet and social media to act and communicate in faith.