Issue 04-08-2017
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Thought for the Week: Community and belonging
In the opening session of Yearly Meeting Gathering Mark Russ, of Woodbrooke, had hundreds of Friends stamping their feet, clicking their fingers, patting their hands on their chests and singing. Everyone in the huge Butterworth Hall at the University of Warwick seemed to be smiling: the young, teenagers, young adults...
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Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Main sessions
The main business sessions of Yearly Meeting 2017 began on Sunday morning with the appointment of the clerk, Deborah Rowlands, and the assistant clerks, Clare Scott Booth and Siobhan Haire, who were to direct affairs in the main auditorium with a combination of efficiency, quiet authority and humour.
Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Montage
Yearly Meeting Gathering: Special interest groups
Peace and security An impressive panel of Friends was assembled on Monday afternoon for a highly stimulating session on peace and security. Andrew Tomlinson, of the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) in New York; Jonathan Woolley, of QUNO in Geneva; Lucy Roberts, regional director of the American Friends Service Committee ...
Nurturing ministry
Rembrandt’s etching Christ Preaching (1652) is a remarkable work of art, but it is also a penetrating essay on the nature of spoken ministry, which can provide us with valuable pointers as to its role and purpose today.
Decline or revival?
‘Isn’t it nice to have some young people at Meeting’ is one of the most repeated phrase that Young Adult Friends (YAFs) hear in Meeting – a well meaning phrase but one that points to a great sense of loss that is symptomatic of the deeper problems facing YAFs within...
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Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Revising the ‘Red Book’
The Revision Preparation Group (RPG) was formed by Meeting for Sufferings following Yearly Meeting’s inability to find unity in 2014 on the issue of whether to revise Quaker faith & practice (Qf&p). Since then the RPG has worked to help the Yearly Meeting to reach a place where...
Reflections on the ‘Red Book’: Living simply
The produce of the earth is a gift from our gracious creator to the inhabitants, and to impoverish the earth now to support outward greatness appears to be an injury to the succeeding age. John Woolman, 1772 Quaker faith & practice 25.01