Quaker universalists ponder ‘life, time and eternity’
Online conference with a broad range of speakers and attendees from UK and abroad
‘Life, time and eternity’ was the theme for this year’s Quaker Universalist Group’s conference, with speakers including an anthropologist, a Christian retired vicar, a Muslim shaykh, a Zen Buddhist, a leading physicist and a lecturer in Hinduism.
The online conference, from 7 May to 15 May, is usually held annually in Woodbrooke over a weekend. This year’s event spanned eight days and was held over seven evening or Saturday sessions, each lasting one hour and three-quarters. With attendance ranging from between fifty-to-seventy for each session, Anthony Philpott, chair of QUG, told the Friend: ‘We were delighted with the positive response from participants. Zoom enabled people from all over the UK (and world) to take part at no cost and the breakout rooms enabled everybody to contribute to the event. So, although we lost some of the benefits of physically going away together, in other ways there were gains.’
The event was postponed in 2020 but the six booked speakers were able to join this year’s conference.
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