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Quakers' Yearly Meeting moves online
More than a thousand Quakers successfully held their first Yearly Meeting online today, prevented from meeting face-to-face by the COVID-19 pandemic. Not since 1668 has anything – not even world wars – prevented Yearly Meeting, a time for Quakers to gather in stillness to listen to the promptings of love and truth.
Quakers' Yearly Meeting moves online
Making meetings simpler
Peace, truth, equality and simplicity – the words trip off Quaker tongues very readily. But if we are so committed to simplicity, why can it seem so complicated to run our 'simple' Quaker meetings?
Making meetings simpler
Speaking up about sanism: love as social action
Quakers have a long tradition of engagement around mental health. If we want to plot a timeline, then the founding of The Retreat in 1792 by Yorkshire Quaker William Tuke provides a cornerstone. It was the first establishment of its kind to assume recovery from mental illness was possible, notable for treating residents with sympathy, respect and dignity. These shifts had a profound influence on public opinion, foreshadowing fundamental reform of the laws relating to mental illness and its treatment.Fast forward two and a half centuries and The Retreat is now a Quaker Recognised Body providing specialist mental health services for people with complex and challenging needs.
Speaking up about sanism: love as social action
Love around the table: food security and climate justice
"I was farming water. I wasn't farming soil. My dad got flooded once in 1981, but since 2000, I've lost count of the amount of times that I've been flooded."These were the words of Colin Chappell, arable farmer in Lincolnshire, about the 2023 flooding. He's not alone. Paul Behrens, a professor at the University of Oxford who works on food security, offered this quote as an example at the recent National Emergency Briefing on climate change and the UK.
Love around the table: food security and climate justice
Hope is our covenant: reparations reflections
“The healing power of redemptive love lures us and calls us toward the possibility of healing... The persistence of this call gives us reason to hope. Without hope, we cannot return to love…Renewing our faith in love's promise, hope is our covenant."
Hope is our covenant: reparations reflections
5 ways to make Quaker meeting houses work for the future
I'm always a bit anxious when we spend time worrying about Quaker property. Early Quaker George Fox was disparaging about 'steeple houses'. In his radical vision, going to a physical church was not necessary to experience God. Really it's the community that makes up the church, not the premises it meets in.
5 ways to make Quaker meeting houses work for the future
Peace is possible
The promise made to the millions of people slaughtered by the hideous mistakes of World War I was 'never again'. World War I revealed that humanity is horribly capable of creating hell on earth.
Peace is possible
Quaker funerals: community and contribution
I'm an elder of my local Quaker meeting at the moment, and have had the privilege of being responsible for the holding of two funeral meetings for worship in the last year. One was for someone who died in her late 90s; the other for an active woman whose life felt cut short by illness. Both were powerful, raw, moving occasions.
Quaker funerals: community and contribution
5 reasons to go to Quaker meeting (number 5 is a surprise)
Quaker meeting for worship involves sitting together with others, either in a room or online, and trying to access stillness and silence in order to listen deeply. The aim is to hear what love and truth are saying to us, which many Quakers understand as God speaking in our hearts. That's pretty vague, though. Why specifically might you want to try meeting for worship for the first time?
5 reasons to go to Quaker meeting (number 5 is a surprise)
Love Your Neighbour, but struggle with Scripture?
This year's theme for World Quaker Day and Quaker Week is 'Love Your Neighbour'. It's a positive and caring message, and not exclusively a religious one. Most people of all faiths and none would agree that it's a good idea, even if it does raise the question posed to Jesus in Luke 10:29: “And who is my neighbour?"
Love Your Neighbour, but struggle with Scripture?