ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that one of the ways in which Liberal Quakerism has done by adopting as a central part of its identity a procedural ethics that is more readily grasped by secular ethical thinking than the procedural and metaethics of other religious groups. As a religious society, most of whose members still hold some sort of a belief in God, Quakerism would be expected to have a theistic flavour to its metaethics and normative ethics. There is a major divide here between the kind of metaethical claims that are made by theological and those made by secular ethics. The chapter outlines the development of Liberal Quakerism in Britain that is especially relevant to how moral evaluation is practised there today. It sketch out how the Quaker discernment procedure in principle allows Friends to negotiate internal polarizations, and also deal with the tension of acting as a prophetic voice in society while still being taken seriously by secular agencies.
