Pattern matching: Beth Allen responds to Yearly Meeting Gathering with a familiar prayer

‘We often still think about forgiveness at a nursery level.’

by Beth Allen 17th September 2021

We give ourselves such problems when we live with other people! They are different from us – so awkward! We disagree with them, but quietly, so as not to upset anyone. In this year’s Epistle from Yearly Meeting Gathering we reminded ourselves that ‘we need to tenderly explore disagreement… and avoid a false peace’. We also committed ourselves to thought and action in three huge areas of disagreement: our enmeshment in racism, our attitudes to our gender diversity and action on climate justice.