Helen Haughton, Churchtown Meeting
Public Lecture, delivered at Ireland Yearly Meeting, April 22, 2006
In choosing what I wanted to say this evening, I am returning to an important early event in Quakerism.
On one occasion, George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, attended a church service at which he was permitted to speak from the pulpit. He pointed out that the prophets, including Jesus, and his apostles, spoke from what they understood God to be saying to them, – not from readings or from the scriptures. This spiritual individualism and the acceptance of diversity, is at the core of Quakerism. So, from my experience, what can I say?
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