Quaker take on Easter varies widely

In the Michener novel “Chesapeake”, the Quaker difference is highlighted in a colonial colloquy between a Catholic priest and an outspoken adherent of the new Religious Society of Friends.

After establishing that his once-persecuted counterpart ? a Quaker woman enjoying sanctuary on Maryland’s Eastern Shore ? accepted both Christ’s divinity and scripture’s validity, the priest asked if she then agreed with St. Paul’s 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 admonition that women should keep silent in church. “It is quite possible to love Jesus, but to wonder about Paul,” the woman brightly responded.