Elizabeth Cave

The Quaker Social Testimony Network was formed in 1997---the outcome of a Woodbrooke conference – with a mandate to offer informed support for local Friends on this important aspect of Quakerism.

To this end, Elizabeth Cole and Ros Morley have brought together accounts of individual experiences of testimony that collectively may act as a resource to encourage discussion, study, and meditation of the subject and, as a consequence lives may be lived more Quakerly as part of a faithful and inspired community.

Jonathan Dale, in the chapter on Testimony, declares it to be about bearing witness to the truth. “It is not,” he says, “a question of opinion or reason or hearsay—of what I think, or what someone else has told me. It is about affirming our own experience of something as true, as fact, as surely known. It is not a form of words, but a mode of life based on the realization that there is that of God in everyone, that all human beings are equal, that all life is interconnected.”

See also the 1996 Swarthmore Lecture 'Beyond the Spirit of the Age' by Jonathan Dale (shelved at 7A)… (más)