Letters - 27 January 2012

From poetry to population

An Area Meeting yet to come

I was very inspired by Jane Robinson’s poem (13 January) where, at an Area Meeting, the spirit of George Fox says: ‘So tell me Friends are Quakers strong in speaking truth and righting wrong across the world so wide?’ The Area Meeting suddenly sees how un-Quakerly they are in just following up routine matters. Then ‘visions were unfurled / to make things better if they could / Reminded now that Quakers should / go out and change the world!’

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