Meeting for Sufferings: QCCIR report

The Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations reported to Meeting for Sufferings

by Trish Carn 11th April 2014

The Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR) terms of reference ask it to keep Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) ‘informed of the various movements towards inter-church cooperation and opportunities for interfaith dialogue, and for responding on behalf of the Yearly Meeting so that Friends’ views on issues of faith and order are represented to other churches and communities of faith’.  Andrew Williams and John Myhill introduced QCCIR’s report at Meeting for Sufferings (MfS). In his introduction, John Myhill said that other churches feel that ‘God is the essence of what is important to them and they want reassurance that we have some of that essence’. He continued: ‘If we focus on words, they are blocks.’