Quaker Social Testimony in our Personal and Corporate Life

by Jonathan Dale

Overview

Social testimony sees lifestyle and politics as integral expressions of our spirituality. Testimony provides a Way to live our understanding of what human beings are meant to be: loving, truthful, peaceful, and centered not on self, but on God and therefore the natural world and other people. This pamphlet essay strives to reweave Quaker corporate faith so that lives testify as signs of God�s power at work in the World.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150649828
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	08/23/2014
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #360
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	88 KB

About the Author

Jonathan Dale has been much involved in the work Britain Yearly Meeting has done over the last thirty years on social questions, particularly housing and poverty. He has been Clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting�s social responsibility department�s central committee, and, with Rachel Carmichael and others, was deeply involved in Britain Yearly Meeting�s exercise on Rediscovering our Social Testimony (ROST). This exercise was stimulated by his 1995 address on social testimony to the Conference which commemorated the famous 1895 Manchester Conference and by his 1996 Swarthmore Lectures Beyond the Spirit of the Age. In turn the ROST exercise culminated in the publication of Faith in Action in 2000, for which he wrote a substantial introductory section. Although this process of reflection had started in the twenty years he spent as a university lecturer in French at St. Andrews, it was deeply nourished by a calling in 1983 to retrain as a community worker. He then moved from Scotland to Manchester. He now lives with his wife, Emily, in a tough inner-city area of Salford where he works for a grass-roots housing cooperative. His three children do their best to remind him of the imperatives of a radical analysis of the powers-that-be, and of radical responses.