QUAKERS have celebrated the 400th birthday of co-founder who lived in Coventry.
George Fox, born in 1624 – the times of religious and political unheaval – he gathered people who were more interested in an egalitarian form of faith.
After some time they became known as the Quakers, or friends – there are more than 400,000 worldwide today.
George moved to Coventry, meeting with priests and professors of religion – he described the place as ‘there were many tender people’.
Coming to an end when he put his foot in a priest’s flowerbed – ‘at which the man was in a rage, as if his house had been on fire.’
After this accident, George looked out the perspectives of religious dissenters instead.
The journal recounts his onward journey – both inward and outward – talking with and listening to people as he goes.
It resolves when he identifies what is still the basis of Quakerism today – the inward light of Christ as spiritual guide.
Quakers meet st 10.30 every Sunday at the Friends Meeting House on Hill Street in Coventry.
