Quakers

Two businessmen’s unusual conversion in 1700s South Carolina led them to liberate the people they put in bondage.

A historian’s “intentionally provocative” account of religious liberty in America leaves too little room for claims of conscientious dissent.

How Catholics and Reformers reacted to the transatlantic slave trade.

How religious convictions have influenced our relationships with our firearms.

Classics scholar Sarah Ruden says extraordinary things happen when you read Paul alongside other ancient literature.

Thomas Slaughter draws a sensitive portrait of the gentle Quaker who battled slavery, materialism, and other social evils.

First friend

Quaker mystic and abolitionist

350 years ago, George Fox launched a powerful, peace-loving movement with an assault on established Christianity.

The liberal end of the Society of Friends has long had members who denied God’s existence or Jesus’ divinity. Now hundreds of pagans call Quakerism home.