Quakers began with a critique of creeds—succinct, easily memorizable statements of faith that make most church's doctrine clear and tidy. What we believe has always been a slippery question, made more so by divisions and conflict within our religious society. Are there things that unite us in belief? Or is a search for this kind of unity impossible or even ill-advised in the twenty-first century? How do articulate and advance our beliefs even when they conflict with the beliefs of fellow Friends? How do we understand Friends whose beliefs differ?

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