Women of Power and Presence: The Spiritual Formation of Four Quaker Women Ministers

These four women came from different backgrounds and they lived and ministered in different contexts. They differed in their understandings of self, God and society. What these four shared, however, was a faith and practice based on a religious experience of the inward presence of God. To this sustaining and guiding presence they committed their lives. Such a commitment led them to live active lives as effective moral agents. They spoke, wrote and acted with power and presence. They knew th...