The future of Meeting for Sufferings
John Nurse suggests a way forward
For some time now we have been putting a lot of time, effort and resources into trying to adapt our organisations, central and local, to demands from without. In doing so, we have been setting up a large number of autonomous charities – locally for Area Meetings (AMs) and centrally for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). This work makes particular and local issues grow in the importance we give them. But it also puts strain on the informal ties that we rely on to keep together the different elements in the Religious Society of Friends, just when linkages between the different elements in the Society are already weak.
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