Reporting for duty: Rebecca Hardy talks to the Swarthmore Lecturer, Thomas Penny
‘I’ve only felt called to spoken ministry maybe a dozen times in forty-plus years of going to Meeting for Worship, so writing more than 20,000 words was quite a challenge.’
How long have you been a Quaker and how were you introduced to the Society?
Most of my life. My Mum’s family were Quakers and, after a spell going to the Church of England Sunday school in the village where we lived, I grew up in Gloucester Meeting. There was a fantastic Children’s Meeting there, run by Gwen Bagwell, a wonderful retired teacher. She told us stories from Quaker history and encouraged us to think about our place in the world.
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