'Christmas is a festival of hope, an affirmation that better times are coming.' Photo: Klara Kulikova on Unsplash
A man for all seasons: Martyn Kelly shares his view
‘We want to level up but, in reality, we find that we sink to a spiritual lowest common denominator.’
by Martyn Kelly
24th December 2021
Quakers don’t keep ‘times or seasons’. Except that, in the run-up to Christmas, someone invariably reminds us during Meeting for Worship that Quakers don’t keep times or seasons. So we sort of do keep them, if only to express Quakerly contrariness.
