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Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 5
Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC) provided four opportunities for those attending Yearly Meeting to worship with Friends from around the world. Each half hour blended Meeting for Worship was led by a different section of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC).
Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 6
Quaker Social Action (QSA) offered a session asking How do Quaker faith and values inform social action? More than forty participants heard from QSA director Judith Moran, Giles Robinson, communications manager, and trustee Caroline Humphries. The session started with a short video about QSA’s work and the impact of...
Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 7
Forty-nine people heard a panel of five Quaker agencies speak on Making change in the world: A global perspective. Leading figures from FWCC, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), QUNO, Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) and QPSW explained their work and how they support diversity and inclusion.
Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 8
In a session co-hosted by Quaker Life and QPSW’s Conciliation Group, seventy-seven Friends explored The strange paradox of Quaker conciliation.
Yearly Meeting 2022: Opening Session - Faith, community, action
Almost 500 Friends gathered for the Opening Session of Yearly Meeting (YM) 2022, the first to blend online and in-person participation. Almost 2,000 people had registered to attend (1,199 online, 735 in person, with sixty-two children and young people) and on Friday evening 220 gathered in The Light with around 270 on Zoom.
Yearly Meeting 2022: Session 6 - Required Business, As led
Some Friends had moved online for Monday morning’s Session Six (in-person numbers across all sessions were lower than expected by registration, a frustration for those who had prepared the catering) but it was a settled Meeting that heard Siobhán Haire read from Romans 12:2: ‘Adapt yourselves no longer to...
Yearly Meeting 2022: Session 3 - Our Quaker Communities: Grounded in faith and challenging us to act
Saturday afternoon’s Session Three focussed on Our Quaker Communities: Grounded in faith and challenging us to act. In opening worship, one Friend reflected on the ‘wealth and riches of the ministry’ in the previous session. Two things were fundamentally important, said the Friend: ‘one is acknowledging our own vulnerability,...
Friends urge government to use ‘pathways to peace’
Quakers have written to the government to caution against deploying inflammatory action in the push to help Ukraine’s defence.
Quaker group changes name after Friends leave
The Quaker Gender and Sexual Diversity Community (QGSDC) has changed its name to Quaker Rainbow, after some members left.
Launch of new climate justice course
Britain Yearly Meeting and Woodbrooke have launched a new course about the climate crisis.