Alison Leonard reflects on caring in the Quaker community

Thought for the Week: Oversight and eldership

Alison Leonard reflects on caring in the Quaker community

by Alison Leonard 9th March 2017

I was looking around for something to counter my drift towards despair about the present political landscape when a friend, who works at the Bradford School of Peace Studies, sent me a copy of a lecture given last year on the theme of caring. In it James Thompson argued for caring to stand at the centre of any argument for social justice.