Outreach at Greenbelt

Abigail Maxwell writes about the Quaker presence at this summer’s Greenbelt Festival in Northamptonshire

Friends at Greenbelt. | Photo: Abigail Maxwell.

I met an angel at Greenbelt. She is an Anglican priest, serving as a prison chaplain. We talked of spiritual reality, and how the words we use for it swirl around the edge of it. She is a channel for the peace and love of God to the men in her care. I saw the love in her face. She told me how she had brought a man to see that spiritual reality through the experience of beauty – in a prison!

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