An open space
Abigail Maxwell reflects on the Greenbelt Festival
I began August at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) as I ended it at the Greenbelt Festival: with my tribe, my heart opened and mind expanded. The festival feeds a hunger across the churches. Someone at the Queer stall asked: ‘Why can’t church always be this open, thoughtful, loving, generous?’ Here is the church, wrestling with Quaker issues, all of us celebrating and consecrating the worship of thousands together. We share interests: I met a man whose talk I remembered from YMG in Bath, and they talked of attracting more minority ethnic people.
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