Spiritual connectedness

Jan Arriens reflects on words, belief and testimony at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG)

by Jan Arriens 22nd August 2014

Over the past three years we have been looking at ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’. From 2015 to 2017 Yearly Meeting will explore ‘Living out our faith in the world’. I have been asked to approach this session as a bridge between these two.

In looking at how we are living out our faith, we need first to ask: what is it that we believe? While there appears to be a wide and sometimes controversial diversity of belief among Quakers, I think there is in fact a notable unity of belief – although this is something we don’t often acknowledge.