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…
no liturgy? no clergy? - yes, this is what "Unprogrammed" means - Quakers gather and sit together in silence, listening for god to speak to us directly and maybe lead us to share an extemporaneous message with the group. Sometimes meetings are completely silent, sometimes…