Thought for the Week: Discernment

Andrew Sterling writes about discernment and the Quaker Way

by Andrew Sterling 18th January 2019

Quakerism is hardly the platform for personal ambition, power and control. The absence of a leader is embedded in the Quaker ethos. However, there are leadings, arrived at by the process of discernment, through mutual listening – which we know as the ‘feeling of the Meeting’.