first, some misconceptions to clear up: we are not Amish or Mennonite - no traditional garb or horse & buggy primitivism. i think this confusion stems from Pennsylvania being founded by a Quaker, William Penn and Quakers being religiously tolerant when most weren't, so other…
so, what IS Quakerism? well to start the official name is the Religious Society of Friends; "Quaker" started as a derogatory stereotype of trembling religious fervor, but we adopted it as a nickname, as one does. George Fox founded it in England in the 1640s and many Quakers…
The best i can explain it is that George Fox was a first principles thinker living during the Enlightenment who rejected institutionalized Christian bureaucracy to focus on direct experience of the Divine - "that of God in everyone" - which we most frequently refer to as the…