This week in Christian history: Quaker founder dies, Lutheran Synod president ordained

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Sunday, January 09, 2022

Quaker founder dies – Jan. 13, 1691

This week marks the anniversary of when George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, died in London, England, at age 66.

A native of Leicestershire, Fox stressed the value of the “inner light” of personal religious experience and opposed formal church leadership and worship, as well as practices like taking oaths.

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“These things I did not see by the help of man, nor by the letter, though they are written in the letter, but I saw them in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by his immediate Spirit and powers, as did the holy men of God, by whom the Holy Scriptures were written,” he wrote, according to Britannica. 

Fox and his followers experienced much persecution for their beliefs and practices, with the Quaker founder himself being arrested on several occasions.