The Personal Relevance of Truth

Quakers are not often noted for their preachers, but let me introduce Thomas S. Brown! Here is language that tumbles and rolls through the power of suffering when “we squirm ceaselessly in the presence of Emptiness, Meaninglessness, Nothingness.” Here is swashbuckling language which with a jab of the dagger and the thrust of a verbal cutlass tears through the crude thinking of the day and leaves us with “suffering without meaning or purpose is Hell.”

Thomas Brown is not one to defer judgment...