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Oliver Robertson meets forthright Christian Quakers and learns about the growth of Friends churches in Kenya
They're Meetings, Friend, but not as we know them The 'programmed' Quakers who make up the majority of Friends United Meeting (FUM) began each session of their triennial gathering with joyful singing, hear a devotional sermon every morning and place offerings in a collection plate passed around the pews each evening These are Quakers who are unashamedly one hundred per cent Christian
I did wonder before going how comfortable I would be among Quakers who included in their worship many of the features I saw the Society as getting away from – churches filled with sound not silence, pre-planned services, paid clergy The answer is that I got along very well indeed because, regardless of the headline differences, these are people who are unashamedly one hundred per cent Quaker too
Oliver Robertson
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