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Meeting for Sufferings: Mixed reception for the review of the Committee on Clerks
ON Sunday 25 November Meeting for Sufferings, which was held at Woodbrooke in Birmingham, received a report from the review group it appointed to look at the work of the Committee on Clerks (ConC) earlier this year. ConC is responsible for nominating names for the clerk and assistant clerk roles for...
Meeting for Sufferings: Gender diversity statement from Quaker Life Central Committee
Jocelyn Burnell, co-clerk of Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC), drew Friends’ attention to an initial statement on gender diversity at Meeting for Sufferings.
Meeting for Sufferings: BYM considers UK post-Brexit divisions
Quakers could be doing more to help heal divisions in post-Brexit Britain, suggested one Friend at Meeting for Sufferings. The comment came on 24 November after Jeff Beatty, clerk of Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC) spoke to the QPSWCC report.
Meeting for Sufferings: Friends tell of how much their world family matters
Meeting for Sufferings on 24 November was asked if ‘the world family of Friends matter – to you and your Meeting?’ The question was posed by Ann Floyd, clerk of Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC), who spoke about the work the committee does strengthening bonds with the global Quaker community, particularly with...
Meeting for Sufferings: Questions and considerations for QLCC
Having started as a ‘rather self-contained part’ of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) – ‘doing great work, but it didn’t work a lot with other parts of the organisation’ – Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) has been on ‘a huge journey,’ Jocelyn Burnell said. The clerk of QLCC told Meeting for Sufferings...
Meeting for Sufferings: ‘Lots and lots of challenges lie ahead’ for QCCIR
The Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR) regards its biggest achievement as The Changing Face of Faith in Britain, Stephanie Grant, a member of the body, told Meeting for Sufferings on 24 November. This report was a legacy project produced in partnership with Woodbrooke.
QSA hails ‘big breakthrough’ in funeral costs
Quaker Social Action (QSA) is celebrating what it hailed as a ‘big breakthrough for those struggling with funeral costs’ after a major investigation into the funeral sector was announced.
Quaker Congo Partnership UK event
Kingston upon Thames Friends hosted an open event for the Quaker Congo Partnership UK on 25 November.
Benjamin Lay ‘undisowned’ by four Meetings
Southern East Anglian Friends have expressed unity with the formerly disowned radical Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lay. The Area Meeting (AM) is the final of the four Meetings whose predecessors disowned him in the eighteenth century to reconsider. The others are Abington Monthly Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in the United...
Meeting for Sufferings: ‘Simple church’ affirmed as new priority
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees have reaffirmed they want ‘a simple church supported by a simple charity to reinvigorate Quakerism’ as the basis for its new set of priorities.