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…
you might notice i say meeting rather than service - Quakers have our own terminology, as you'd expect from a first principles English-speaking religious refactor. some other lingo: Friend = fellow Quaker, ppl will also describe quaker events as Friendly <<whatever>> Meeting =…