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Making a Yearly Meeting Gathering for all Quakers in Britain
When I opened the Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017 programme, I was really impressed. The week promised so much, and I couldn't wait to be there.
Making a Yearly Meeting Gathering for all Quakers in Britain
Welcome to the blog
Welcome to the Quakers in Britain blog!
Welcome to the blog
Quaker communities – loving, inclusive and all-age?
In August, Yearly Meeting, the annual gathering of British Quakers, gave all Quakers in Britain an exciting challenge – for our meetings to be more diverse. Now I'm looking for suggestions on just how we can do that.
A more inclusive Quakerism
The Living Wage is a victory we can build on
As of Living Wage Week 2017, Quakers in Britain can celebrate 13 Quaker organisations who are now accredited Living Wage employers – including Friends House, Woodbrooke, and eight area meetings across Britain.
The Living Wage is a victory we can build on
Times and seasons: A Quaker reflection on Christmas
Early Quakers did not observe Christmas nor mark other 'times and seasons'. They believed that no day was more holy than any other, and believed that each day, and all of life, was sacred (Quaker faith & practice 27.39 and 27.42). Today, as with so many things in the Quaker community, there is a full spectrum of practices and responses.
Times and seasons: A Quaker reflection on Christmas
Our Quaker year: 5 meeting insights for 2018
Along with the Recording Clerk, Paul Parker, I love visiting local Quaker meetings. Britain Yearly Meeting employs staff to help meetings grow and to work for the changes Quakers want to see in the world. Together, we can do much more.
Five insights from Quaker Meetings
Mental health in meetings: Continuing the conversation
Do you know someone who is living with mental distress? With around 1 in 4 people in the UK experiencing a mental health problem each year, the chances are that you do – and that it could be someone in your meeting.
Mental health in Quaker meetings
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
Why the Windrush scandal is symptomatic of Britain's 'hostile environment'
I grew up in a small town in the English midlands. Behind our terraced house was a lane where seven or eight families' children played together, doing all the stuff children do when they have a bit of space, time and imagination.
Why the Windrush scandal is symptomatic of Britain's 'hostile environment'
Think global, act local
Does your council pay the Living Wage? Make decisions about fracking? Support refugees? What does your council do to address inequality locally? These are all issues that Quakers care about and local councils influence how these issues are addressed.
Think global, act local