Make Quakerism Militant Again
Quakerism is designed for disruption. Actively stirring up trouble, causing a scene, shedding Light on oppression. Following Christ calls us to be outlaws, to defy the powers of this world. To simultaneously break into and out of the state and extend the Kingdom. We are called to create and live into a new society.
Being ‘prophetic’ is radical only because God is.
Being radical is not, in itself, ‘prophetic.’
There are times in certain activist efforts when one may feel God taking a hand, & certainly God should have the credit for the humane concern that motivates such efforts. Friends could and should be more ‘radical’, ie more willing to see and tinker with the roots of the systemic evils we deplore.
But to truly be more ‘prophetic’, Friends need to ground our politics in friendship with God