A Simple Faith in a Complicated World

Making sense of religion in a world where Christianity seems to have forgotten the message of Jesus.

Kate McNally grew up in a mainstream Christian faith, where she could not find the connection to the divine that we all seek. She turned to psychology and science and to the pursuit of success. That all worked for a while, providing a measure of comfort but not fulfillment, feeding the ego but not the spirit. Then, at a low point and broken by the drive for success, Kate began a spiritual journey that brought her to the Quakers, where she found a spiritual community and a stripped-down, simple way of following the basic commandment: Love one another.

In Quaker Quicks - A Simple Faith in a Complicated World, Kate explores the faith of Jesus rather than the faith about Jesus and shares with us the connections to God, self, and others that have brought her to the spiritual community we all long for. Take this journey with her and explore the idea of perfection and how imperfections make us uniquely ourselves, perfectly suited to the work we are called to do

A psychologist by training, Kate McNally worked as a university professor and as a management consultant in the US and Canada. In 2001 she and her husband Dan Flynn moved to Belgium where she taught English to businesspeople and became a Quaker. She has represented Quakers at the Council of Europe and worked with the Quaker Council for European Affairs on projects related to forced migration, racism, and vicarious trauma among humanitarian aid workers. She is an elder and associate tutor at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre where she teaches courses on anti-racism. She is a frequent contributor to the British magazine The Friend and is a certified chocolate taster and judge.