Margaret Fell: The Mother of Quakerism’s Powerful Ministry
In the mid-seventeenth century, Margaret Fell hosted a traveling minister named George Fox who asked her to reflect on what she knew about God. This encounter led Margaret to become not just a Quaker, but one of the movement’s most powerful advocates.
“Margaret and her home became Quaker Central,” explains Shulamith Clearbridge, and her writings, including Women’s Speaking Justified, served as foundational texts for the young Religious Society of Friends. In this episode, Shulamith shares how she began updating Margaret’s letters to the early Quaker community into twenty-first-century English to make her words more accessible.
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