Meeting for Sufferings: National Quaker conference on ethics and economics
‘Food banks are not enough: Practical ideas to challenge inequality’ conference to be held
by Ian Kirk-Smith
12th September 2014
A one-day national Quaker conference on ethics and economics is to be held in Birmingham in November, Meeting for Sufferings was told.
The conference, ‘Food banks are not enough: Practical ideas to challenge inequality’, is organised by the Central England Peace Committee, will consider a pathway towards a publication that it was suggested might be called Towards a Quaker View of Ethics and Economics.
The 2014 Britain Yearly Meeting statement on inequality, which was adopted by Meeting for Sufferings in April, encourages Quakers to ‘commit to action to redress the growing inequality of wealth and income in our country.’
