Leadership Among Friends

There is a leadership crisis in Quakerism today. It is a strange crisis, though, for Quakerism as a society trains people in leadership as well as any organization. Our emphasis on individual conscience balanced with social conscience sends forth from our society many persons with uncommon vision and courage – the seeds of leadership. But within our society we do a masterful job of holding back vision and courage and thereby discouraging leadership. In some meetings the word leadership is a...