Thought for the Week: A community in the world

Jill Allum reflects on Friends as a community in the world

by Jill Allum 11th July 2014

‘You are a community in the world.’ Who else remembers those words? They were spoken to us at the end of an ‘Equipping for Ministry Conference’ in 1991 by the Roman Catholic observer, who was asked to sum us up in five minutes. The Anglican observer did the same. Do we still invite outsiders to our conferences to tell us how we look to them?

‘A community in the world’ – does that sum up who we are as Quakers now as we head towards Bath?