Thought for the Week: Hospitality
Andrew Backhouse reflects on hospitality and exploring Quaker faith & practice
How is your Meeting’s exploration of Quaker faith & practice going? We recently had our first discussion, after Meeting for Worship, in Wilmslow, using the advice from the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre. The discussion left one Friend feeling we should only have the ‘stuff from the seventeenth century’ as it ‘said it all’, whereas others found that material too hard to understand.
Frances and I offered a simple supper at our house for eight Friends to sign up for. It was to be followed by people sharing their best bit of chapter twenty-one and their most challenging piece. We particularly targeted those of working age, as they could not get to daytime gatherings. We found ourselves with three long-time members, two shorter-time ones and four pretty recent attenders.
