What is the role of religion and religious groups in the governance of a diverse, multi-cultural society?
” ‘Politics’ cannot be relegated to some outer place, but must be recognised as one side of life, which is as much the concern of religious people and of a religious body as any other part of life. Nay, more than this, the ordering of the life of man in a community, so that he may have the chance of a full development, is and always has been one of the main concerns of Quakerism.” Lucy F Morland, 1919, as quoted in BYM Quaker Faith & Practice, 23.06 “What is important is that institutions and their administration be constantly tested against human values, and that those who are concerned about these values be prepared to grapple with the complex realities of modern society as it is.” BYM Quaker Faith & Practice, 23.
