‘It might be easy to disregard it all as frivolous but the best of it is profoundly moving.’ Photo: Krists Luhaers / Unsplash.

The Engaging Young Adult Quakers project is exploring how to help young adults to thrive. This year a group of Friends visited the Glastonbury music festival. Joseph Fuller was there to listen

‘At Glastonbury, it is clear that people feel able to be who they want to be.’

The Engaging Young Adult Quakers project is exploring how to help young adults to thrive. This year a group of Friends visited the Glastonbury music festival. Joseph Fuller was there to listen

by Joseph Fuller 26th July 2019

After a whole week at Glastonbury Festival it was very difficult to return to everyday life. I was hit by an enormous, irresistible wave of music, beauty and humanity, and my faith is stronger because of it all. I was left with the sense of a child who has just returned from a school trip, not wanting to answer any questions about how it had been, as it had all been far too precious and mysterious to give any of it away.