Var­i­ous Friends are announc­ing that Arthur Berk has passed away. He was an insti­tu­tion unto him­self in Chris­t­ian Quak­er cir­cles. I would often run into him in var­i­ous tra­di­tion­al­ist Quak­er gath­er­ings. I’m sure he thought my latent lib­er­al­ism sus­pect (he was prob­a­bly right!) but he was always ready to talk and share truths and tes­ti­fy to the gospel. He let me record one of these moments at the Con­ser­v­a­tive Friends Gath­er­ing in Lan­cast­er Coun­ty, Penn­syl­va­nia back in 2009. I trust that he’s now wrapped in the lov­ing arms of the Holy Spir­it. RIP, Arthur.