Letters - 05 June 2026
From On song to Pole positions
On song
My three-year-old son attended Yearly Meeting, where Tim Gee led All-Age Worship with some songs. The children’s program had practised the day before. Since coming home, my son has asked to listen to the ‘Riverside song from Meeting with the nice man’. We have been listening to it for days, on continuous repeat. He absolutely loves it! So thank you!
Becky Riddell
Doing all right
Keith Braithwaite (Letters, 29 May) says there are ‘right’ opinions for Quakers. I agree.
For example, in 1727 London Yearly Meeting censured slave trading. Quakers believe slave trading is wrong. I hope Keith does not disagree. I hope there would indeed be social exclusion for a Friend who expressed a view contrary to this minute.
Ceri Morgan (Letters, 22 May) is welcome among Quakers. We recognise, or most of us do, that Ceri is expressing her inner light, her true self. Again, I hope Keith agrees, and that there would be social exclusion for a Friend who expressed a contrary view.
Quakers stand against the orthodoxy of Trump’s USA and Putin’s Russia, and, alas, apparently Starmer’s Britain, not only on authoritarian suppression, but also on trans people, who only want to live our lives as ourselves. I was delighted to see the Australian appeal court stand against this orthodoxy. I hope Keith will stand against it too.
Abigail Maxwell
