Finding a distinctive Quaker voice

Elizabeth Colwell reflects on the QLRC weekend

'What seeds of hidden gifts and talents are dormant in the warm fertile ground of our hearts?' | Photo: pgchamberlin / flickr CC.

The organisers of the Quaker Life Representative Council (QLRC) weekend are bold souls. To invite us to consider in three days the immense and globally significant theme of sustainability was a courageous step. The warmth of our fellowship allowed Friends to become receptive and facilitated the emergence of many seedlings to be tended within our Local and Area Meetings. There is a sense of this being part of a longer and deeper process of discernment and dialogue within the Society.

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