I gave the Salter Lecture at the Quaker's Yearly Meeting earlier this month. I have already published the text. The event was also recorded and is now available to listen to on line, here. The Q & A is also included.
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Wow Richard. I am stunned you can even be disingenuous to your fellow Quakers. You stand there and tell them that in 2003 how Quaker thinking directed you then, but in 2003 you were a “former Quaker”.
Not true at all
I was, admittedly, out of membership at the time having resigned from Wandsworth Meeting just before moved from London and having then decided to defer my application to join Cambridge Meeting made very soon afterwards – because we could not find a meeting near Ely, where we were living then, that it was realistic to attend with two little children
I then joined Norfolk and Norwich Area Meeting when we moved again
So I was not a former Quaker. I was just an occasional attender at the time but still in my mind a Quaker, and said so, often
If you know anything about Quakers you will know they make no big deal about these things
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2009/03/24/this-isnt-petty-this-is-war/
“As someone who was a Quaker for several years”
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Documents/TheologyTaxation.pdf
“An Anglican, and formerly a Quaker, he worships at Ely Cathedral.”
Why you ceased to be a Quaker:
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2009/03/24/this-isnt-petty-this-is-war/comment-page-1/#comment-550379
All totally and completely consistent with what I said, please note
My occasional joke is I might be a Quanglican – and I certainly still, happily go to Anglican churches for the reasons I gave
I began life an Anglican; had a period of little faith, returned as a Quaker, worshipped as an Anglican for a while whilst retaining (as stated) strong Quaker sympathy and returned to membership when it became possible again
You really are looking to make trouble for no reason
Noel Scoper
i’d be interested to know what, you think, is inconsistent here.
There certainly are ‘sects’ for want of a better word, that are incompatible within Christianity, but I don’t think being a Quaker would be remotely incompatible with attending an Anglican or, indeed, a Roman mass. Likewise a Methodist or (in most circumstances) Baptist could attend mass. Dear God, we scarcely want to become more like Syria, do we?
The questioning is bizarre
What is good is that there is a Quaker meeting in Ely now