Gleanings: Seeking unity

Laurie Michaelis concludes his series on sustainability and gospel order

Sea ice. | Photo: NASA/Kathryn Hansen / flickr CC.

I have been at many different kinds of gathering where, after some days together, we felt a sublime connection and a capacity to change the world. It happens in a particular form at Yearly Meeting: the Light shines, a way opens and some intractable conflict is suddenly resolved. Lis Burch recalls that, as Yearly Meeting clerk in 2011 at Canterbury, her notes before the Friday morning session read: ‘thinking is still diverse… no obvious corporate commitment’. But we were ‘spiritually seized by the scruff of the neck’ that morning and made our commitment to become a low carbon sustainable community.

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