Quaker Life, Integrity, Spring 2022

Purchase a single copy of the Spring 2022 issue of Quaker Life: A mosaic of Friendly living on the theme of Integrity. “...Perhaps the word ‘integrity’ comes as close as any single-word answer to ‘What is Quakerism?’ I claim that ‘integrity’ is the essential Quaker testimony and undergirds all other testimonies of Friends in relationship to Quaker faith and practice.”  — Wil Cooper Wil Cooper’s claim that integrity—the insistence that there be correlation between belief and life—is of the essence of Quakerism is borne out by the witness of our authors in this edition of Quaker Life. Though they do not all define integrity as Cooper would, or all use the same point of view in describing what integrity looks like, there is nonetheless a striking amount of interweaving and consistency among these essays. That consistency arises, I believe, from the same source as the testimony itself: integrity is a natural attribute of a heart and soul and mind devoted to God. Although Wil Cooper doesn’t