Quakers and the Afterlife

Contemporary Quakers often struggle to speak together about the ultimate meaning of life and death, and may well have fundamentally different beliefs about what happens to us after death. In contrast, early Friends had a strong sense of living with or alongside Heaven (and sometimes Hell). They had a firm conviction that death was not the end, and that their finite lives were part of a great spiritual journey which included the past, the present and the future. In this session, we'll consider:

Learners will have the opportunity to explore their own attitudes to the afterlife, and have space to unearth some of the complexities of speaking about Heaven and souls, immortality and eternity in Quaker settings.