Shattered by The Light or The Ruins & The Green: Quaker Churches in the Northwest & Midwest Clash and Divide over LGBTQ Issues - Paperback

by Chuck Fager (Author), Jade Souza (Author), Stephen Angell (Author)

In Shattered by the Light, parallel conflicts over sexuality, the Bible and church governance erupt in and tear apart two Quaker associations half a continent apart. Their stories, in the Pacific Northwest and southern Midwest, are part of a larger wave of divisions that echo and illumine recent struggles in numerous other churches, and in American culture at large. This book is Volume Three of The Separation Generation, a three-volume series which brings together reports and related documents about five such conflicts, all distinct but related, in American Quaker circles since the beginning of this century. This book and the series offer both a unique historical record and a singular resource for those concerned with the course of contemporary religious evolution and controversy, which continues and reverberates far beyond the bounds of one small denomination.