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| American Quaker William Penn |
I was a bit startled a
couple of weeks ago to read an essay about Evangelical Christianity’s “more progressive and more contemplative
Anabaptist cousin, Quakerism.”
Stranger still, the author of the article was not only Quaker but a
graduate of George Fox, a leading Quaker university.
First the Southern Baptists are now
Anabaptists and now the Quakers are coming home? What’s going on here? What’s next? – Will the Amish again admit to
being kith and kin with the Mennonites?
Consumed by debates between Mennonites and
Amish on the traditional American side, and between traditional Mennonites and
ethnic Mennonites amongst the Russländer, the Quakers have generally been
pushed off the historic Anabaptist table.
