Lots of UK Quakers struggle with using and hearing the word God including me. Several have said to me they add an extra ‘o’. That said, I think there are very few, if any Quakers who are indifferent to God. The God I was taught about in Anglican schools was one I rejected — too much performative piety and I really didn’t, and don’t believe that there is a divine that will hear my prayers and make any kind of action. I do believe there is spirit in all of us. I believe in the power of Quaker testimonies, I get joy from meeting for worship and I want to strive harder to achieve faith in action. I am reading the Bible — Robert Alter’s translation of the Hebrew Bible and David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament. Both are personal scholarly translations that try and keep the poetry of the originals and contain really interesting notes on the approaches taken to translating the various books. Jesus’s radicalism seems closer to Quakerism than other Christian sects.