Observing Quaker bureaucracy

Peter Bevan reflects on a recent Meeting for Sufferings

I attended Meeting for Sufferings in early February as a substitute alternate for our Area Meeting and found myself slipping into the role of observer rather than participant – a position more comfortable than reflecting, spiritually, on all the agenda items. Indeed, this seems to be an almost impossible task.

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