What in hell is the devil up to? Netherworld Ways suggests some very serious answers. It stands in the tradition of C.S. Lewis' classic The Screwtape Letters and Peter Kreeft's The Snakebite Letters. Lewis' purpose was to portray how Lucifer works to subvert human souls. While Lewis was serious in his intent, he used a comic style that is at once engaging and winning. Kreeft's work has a somewhat different focus, one reflected in his book's subtitle, Devilishly Devious Secrets for Subverting Society as Taught in Tempter's Training School. His focus concerns how the tempter works to undermine and subvert humanity on a societal and cultural scale. Netherworld Ways takes the story a step further to consider the nature and condition, the ways, of a world in which Satan achieves pre-eminence.

Margaret Fell was one of the early converts of George Fox-a woman who more clearly understood Fox's dynamic experience and understanding of the original Christian gospel than anyone else. It was Margaret who quickly turned her estate into a key communication and support node for the growing Quaker movement. It was she who fostered a Quaker community on her estate at Swarthmore Hall. And it was she who, twenty years after her convincement and fifteen after her widowhood, became Fox's helpmate in marriage and co-partner in ministry. To dismiss her would be to dismiss one of the key female founders of early Quakerism.