Britain Yearly Meeting 2015

News from Britain Yearly Meeting 2015, held at Friends House, London, from 1 to 4 May

Diana Francis after delivering the Swarthmore Lecture. | Photo: Trish Carn.

Swarthmore Lecture 2015

The 2015 Swarthmore Lecture, entitled Faith, power and peace, was given by the peace campaigner Diana Francis on Saturday evening to over 1,000 people in the Large Meeting House.

In a very personal and inspiring lecture, she considered the Quaker Peace Testimony in relation to the current global context and drew on her own experience of peacemaking in many different countries.

Her lecture was rooted in her deep Quaker faith and illuminated throughout by her passionate conviction in the values that have underpinned her work.

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