Thought for the Week: Be the message

'Be the message' by Ian Kirk-Smith

by Ian Kirk-Smith 1st May 2015

‘Living out our faith in the world’ is the theme of this year’s Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). It follows three years in which BYM addressed the question: ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’. The themes represent two sides of the same coin. It is impossible to imagine one without the other.

William Penn urged Friends to be ‘possessors as well as professors of the truth…’ It is instructive to consider what it means to ‘profess’ today. George Fox travelled the length and breadth of England preaching – professing – a message with enormous personal conviction. This Yearly Meeting will celebrate a different kind of preaching: one that Quakers value and cherish.