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Finding patterns and examples in Edinburgh
The sun is streaming through the windows of the main meeting room at Central Edinburgh Meeting House. It is a cold and bright February morning and there is a buzz of excited conversation filling the room.
Finding patterns and examples in Edinburgh
Safeguarding matters
We probably all agree that safeguarding is important – but do we all have a shared understanding of what it is? Quakers believe it's centrally important as we seek a future where our communities are loving, inclusive and all age.
Safeguarding matters
Revision of the book of discipline: what happens now?
Britain Yearly Meeting has taken its decision: we're going to be revising Quaker faith & practice, our book of discipline. It's exciting, and daunting; it's going to be a lot of work, and it'll take a while. So, what happens next? What are the first steps?
Revision of the book of discipline: what happens now?
COP24: How did it go?
This aim of the December climate change conference in Poland, known as the Conference of Parties 24 (or COP24), was to define an implementation rulebook for the Paris Agreement. After two weeks of exhausting, if not fierce, negotiations, how did it all go? It depends on who you talk to.
COP24: The bare minimum
Revising Quaker faith & practice: appointing the committee
Last year Quakers decided to revise Quaker faith & practice, our book of discipline. This isn't just a case of looking at the current book and changing the odd word here and there, adding a section or two about new topics, and removing anything that seems outdated. It also won't be an exercise (as suggested in some media coverage) of going through and crossing out every reference to God!
Revising Quaker faith & practice: appointing the committee
Beyond Brexit
The current political crisis is a failure of leadership right across UK politics. In both Parliament and Government we have seen a lack of forethought. Each move appears to be in reaction to current events, not a pre-considered strategy. We needed leaders with integrity and courage, and we found leaders prepared to gamble with the wellbeing of the country.
Beyond Brexit
Sharing the costs: Opening access to Yearly Meeting 2019
Yearly Meeting, the annual gathering of Quakers in Britain, is set to take place on 24–27 May 2019 at Friends House in London. Once again this four-day event will see Friends come together to worship, make decisions, and spend time together.
Opening access to Yearly Meeting 2019
Untangling the web: change through international structures
Having studied social anthropology, I have always been interested in the values we hold (both knowingly and unknowingly) and how these inform the way we live our lives. But the larger political structures that govern and influence our lives have always felt distant to me, something 'other' that I didn't know how to influence or be part of.
Untangling the web: change through international structures
VE day and the hope for peace
My mother described to me how she and her mother cried all day when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced that Britain was again at war on 3 September 1939. World War I had been so terrible only 21 years earlier. The memory of that war and its impact for my grandmother, and more so my grandfather, was a continual trauma. They found it unbearable to think of having to endure yet more war. But, despite the many hardships, during those six years of 1939 to 1945 there emerged a determination to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
VE day and the hope for peace
Racial justice learning for Quakers: a reflection
During June and July I joined approximately 80 other Quakers in a series of five online workshops initiated in response to the killing of George Floyd, and the growth of Black Lives Matter protests in the UK. I didn't believe that I was racist; I certainly didn't want to identify as racist, but I knew that I might be clumsily unaware of some of the challenges faced by people of colour. I hoped that the workshops would increase my understanding and develop greater insight into effective allyship.
Racial justice learning for Quakers: a reflection