Embracing diversity – the challenge for British Quakers
Chrissie Hinde explores how diverse the Society of Friends is, or isn't.
I once worked in a place where staff would openly admit that if they didn’t like a new colleague they would make them so uncomfortable they would leave. Of course this wouldn’t happen in our Meetings. Or would it? My own experience of being a Quaker for eleven years is that we are better at welcoming diversity in the world at large than we are in our own Meetings. The lack of diversity in our Meetings saddens and troubles me.
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