Letters - 02 September 2016
From academies to worship
Academies for Quakers
I would like to pick up two of the points made by Nick Tyldesley (26 August). I believe it is crucial for our beloved Society that there should be strong connections between Local Meetings, Area Meetings and Friends House, perhaps like a kind of spider’s web: if Quakers did not speak with a voice of unity, a voice that arises from what happens in our Meetings for Worship and spreads throughout the organisation, we would lose the quiet power that we exercise now in international work, such as that done by QUNO.
Second, I have been reading through Quaker faith & practice in the programme suggested by the Revision Preparation Group and have found immense and inspiring riches – ‘dry constitutionalism’ is not something I recognise.
Lucy Pollard
Anyone who has been following the study course on Quaker faith & practice will be surprised by the reference to its ‘dry constitutionalism’. Probably the sections referred to are those valuable for reference – the rest are full of wisdom and inspiration.
Of course, it does need to be updated for the twenty-first century, for example, with reference to the internet. Our wonderful Advices & queries start with a stumbling block for the younger half of the population since ‘heed’ seems to have dropped out of the language and is no longer understood.
Barbara Crawford
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