Quakers
Quakers do not have a creed or formal set of beliefs.
This is because Quakers think that adopting a creed is taking on belief at second hand - they think that faith should be more personal than that and based on a person's inner conviction and on taking part in a shared search for the truth with other Quakers.
Quakers believe that faith is something that is always developing and not something frozen at a particular moment in history that can be captured in a fixed code of belief.
Quakers believe that there is a direct relationship between God and each believer, every human being contains something of God - this is often called "the light of God".
Quakers:
- Regard all human beings as equal and equally worthy of respect.
- That all human beings contain goodness and truth.
- Do not accept value judgements based on race or gender.
- Welcome diversity.
Festivals/Ceremonies
Quakers do not have elaborate religious ceremonies and rituals, they regard them as unnecessary.
They sometimes call these "empty forms" and they do not have clergy. They believe that political and other action to improve this world is very important.
For more information visit www.north-west-quakers.org.uk/liverpool.