Are Quakers Mystics?

An online series with Michael Birkel from Ben Lomond Quaker Center: Three 90-Minute Sessions Wednesdays, November 2, 9 & 16, 2022 5:00 PM Pacific = 6:00 PM Mountain Click here to register. A workshop series with Earlham School of Religion faculty (newly emeritus) Michael Birkel. How have Quakers and others understood mysticism? Did Quakers benefit from the inheritance of mystics from the wider Christian tradition? How have Quakers talked about mysticism – what was their language for their interior life? How have Friends benefited from encounters with non-Christian mystical traditions? We’ll explore brief passages from early and modern Friends, and participants will be invited to share from their own spiritual experience. Michael Birkel is a member of Clear Creek Monthly Meeting (Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting) and has taught courses in spirituality and in interfaith studies at the Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana. He has written several books on Quakerism and spirituality and has traveled widely among Friends as a speaker and workshop leader. Michael loves old texts and a community of spirited readers with whom to explore them.