Swarthmore lecturer announced

This year’s Swarthmore Lecture will be given by Gerald Hewitson.

This year’s Swarthmore Lecture, at Britain Yearly Meeting, will be given by Gerald Hewitson.  Gerald, of North Wales Area Meeting, will deliver the lecture at 7pm on Saturday 25 May in the Large Meeting House in Friends House.

The theme of Gerald’s lecture is ‘Journey into life – Inheriting the story of early Friends’.

In his lecture he will address a number of questions, including: How can we find for ourselves the central experience at the heart of Quakerism? How can we feel and work with its power and our own strength?

Starting from some early Quaker images, Gerald will share his understanding of ‘our corporate inward journey to life and truth.’ Gerald is a former deputy headmaster, a founder member of Holyhead Quaker Meeting in Wales, and a former member of Quaker Life Central Committee. He has been actively involved in Experiment with Light (4 November 2011) and spent a term as a Friend in residence at Pendle Hill in Pennsylvania between 2011-12 (9 March 2012).

Corrections (7 March 2013): Gerald Hewitson was a deputy head, not a headteacher. He served on Quaker Life Central Committee but was not the clerk and he and his wife served at Pendle Hill for a term, not a year.

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