I read with a swelling heart Symon Hill’s comment ‘Farewell, pacifist Quakers’. He spoke for me.

I love our openness and share with others those doubts and questions about the source of the inspiration that we experience

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• Posted by ppaull on March 31, 2010

  Religion without belief is what The Society of Friends provides for me.  The peace testimony is witnessed in our Gloucestershire meetings.  The meetings provide spiritual and social friendship, and continue to make me question my daily conduct.

• Posted by Maggie G on April 02, 2010

  At the heart of Quakerism, from the time of George Fox, has been mysticism: the direct experience of ‘God’ by an individual. Many Quakers have had or have this experience. They are the Finders. The rest are Seekers, and may well have this experience in the future.

  Sadly, the Finders are not encouraged to speak up!
  If I minister, sometimes it is not me ministering, it is The Spirit. I have to minister, don’t know why or what, the words come, and I tremble when I resume my seat. I know many others who experience this also. Quakerism has always been an experiential religion.

• Posted by mole on April 07, 2010

  A mystic with direct experience of god, not a ‘Finder’ but found, I don’t have the words.  Is silent ministry not enough?