Micah Bales Blog

Friends and the Spiritual Forces of Evil

by micahUncategorized January 24, 200713 comments

I tried to talk with a group of Quakers recently about the concept of evil in the thought of early Friends. I communicated to them what I had come across in my reading of early Friends, such as George Fox, Margaret Fell, Robert Barclay and William Penn, among others, which was that the early Quakers …

Peace and Vulnerability

by micahUncategorized January 12, 200713 comments

It occurs to me that where Friends are very privileged and protected by Caesar’s might, we are far more likely to set up “reasonable” arguments for the Peace Testimony, as a matter of public policy, or to abandon it altogether. The third alternative, to justify the Peace Testimony as a recognition of an inward reality, …