Violence & non-Violence

ARE WE CHRISTIAN?

In his book Why Friends are Friends Jack Willcuts claims that the first thing to say about us Quakers is that we are Christian. That would not have occurred to me. I have no doubt that thousands of Quakers agree with Friend Jack Willcuts. These Friends identify themselves with the Christian tradition as opposed to other religious traditions, they accept some or most of the core beliefs spelled out in the Christians creeds, and they may believe that pastors have a special relation to God. Nothing revealed in the light given to me leads me to such a sectarian identity.