Johan Maurer is revisiting Fox’s Journal as he copyedits a Russian translation
This task of editing the Russian translation has brought me face to face once again with this unapologetically bold witness and his raw testimony. What am I to do with him? How is he a model or measure for the Friends movement today? Do we have among us — do we endure among us — those who might make such bold claims … to be empowered with God’s message to the same degree as the original writers of Scripture?… to be perfectly redeemed from temptation? … to lead people into the same place where he was, so that they could have the same access to God’s spirit that he claimed to have?