Author: Timmon Wallis

PHOTO: Presidents Gerald Ford and Anwar Sadat, 1974. Public Domain, US National Archive. “Part of the creative experience of a community is learning how to deal with conflict when it arises, and Friends are not usually good at this. ‘Speaking truth in love’ is a Quaker cliché, but ‘papering over the cracks’ is the principle…

A majority of Quakers worldwide live in the countries of East Africa, Central and South America, and would consider Quakerism to be a form of evangelical Christianity. In Britain, where Quakerism began, very few Quakers today would consider themselves to be evangelical Christians and a majority would probably not consider themselves Christian at all. And…