ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that there is a danger for liberal-Liberal Friends of silence no longer bringing presence into absence, but being in and of itself only silence. For Liberals, the sacramental nature of every day has been secularised: now a day is just any day, religiously speaking. In the figure outlining a biblical sense of time, twenty-first-century Liberal Friends are off the chart. Once Liberal Friends had become Liberal, that is, no longer Evangelical with an explicit sense of meantime, the pressure to reform practice disappeared. The chapter suggests that liberal-Liberal Quakers were perhaps best characterised as a Seeker C type, where the object of the seeking was less important than the seeking itself. Seeker C tendencies have become normative so that any theology is provisional, any sense of truth personal or partial. The liberal-Liberal Quakers have lost their sense of working in God’s time, and certainly of a biblical understanding of endtime.
