Whose Friends Are We?
13 October - 17 November 2025, Online
Quakers have always called each other “Friends," but what does this mean? In this course Mark Russ offers a Quaker theology of Friendship, reflecting on what it might mean to be friends of God, Christ and each other in the 21st century.
This course will approach a theology of Friendship from a number of angles. These include the Biblical roots of the term friend, and how Christians have understood friendship over the centuries. As this course emerges from Mark's work on Quaker theology and whiteness, Mark is particularly interested in what it means for non-Jewish, white Quakers to be friends of a Jewish, Black Jesus.
Each week of the course will involve a live online session, where Mark will share thoughts from his current PhD research for you to discuss. This course makes the insights of academic theologians accessible to a non-academic audience. No work is required between each live session, but notes and reading lists will be provide for those who want to go deeper.
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Woodbrooke
Telephone: 01217282360