All roads lead to Birmingham
Tara Craig reports on a recent conference that addressed the growing concern of Friends over inequality in British society
Driving rain failed to prevent sixty Quakers from finding their way to Bull Street Meeting House in Birmingham on 24 October, for the ‘Road Maps to Equality’ conference, organised by members of the Central England Peace Committee.
Friends travelled there from across the country, making this very much a day of maps and routes. Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, gave the keynote speech. Paul said that he had been thinking about the title and pondering how spoilt we are with maps, with the roads already there. Life, he said, is more a case of the end destination being ‘clear-ish’, but the route uncertain.
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