Over the past several months, as we have walked with Tom Hamm on the blog through the long, uneven landscape of Quaker public ministry, something surprising has taken shape. Taken together, these ministers George Fox , Priscilla Hunt Cadwallader , John Woolman , Lucretia Mott , Joseph Hoag , Elias Hicks , Joseph John Gurney , J ohn Wilbur , and David B Updegraff do not simply offer a string of biographies. They create a living field of tension and possibility, a kind of sp