Quakers talk about it a lot, but what actually is discernment? Roy Stephenson offers his thoughts

‘All Quaker work has a prophetic function.’

by Roy Stephenson 3rd November 2023

I was recently asked to facilitate a day on nominations for Central England Area Meeting, and this caused me to think again about the nature of discernment. Its value to the nominations committee can’t be over-emphasised, but what holds true for that committee is true for every Quaker committee, and for all the ways we work. So if we attempt to unpack discernment, where does this take us?