John Edminster: Who Are We? and Tension in Minutes. Clarity as to what was wrong with the minute dawned on me slowly, and I think it comes down to this: the committee that proposed it had started with a question, “who are we?” that could be taken as either a deep, “philosophical” one about our essential nature, or a sociological one about inclusivity and our decision-making processes – or both... Are we Quakers a people of God – not “people of God,” but a people of God – bound by a covenant with God? If so, then we cannot correctly answer the question of who we are without reference to that covenant, whether or not we still remember or care what it meant to such early Friends as George Fox, Isaac Penington and Francis Howgill.

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