'...climate emergency and inclusion are more connected than I once thought.' Photo: Oliver Cole.
Thought for the week: Siobhan Haire prepares for Yearly Meeting
‘The Spirit made clear that the bridge between climate and discrimination was structural privilege.’
I am writing this five days before Yearly Meeting begins. The last few weeks have involved meetings with the clerking team, phone calls with members of Agenda Committee, writing introductions, reading epistles and testimonies, and worrying about draft minutes and emails – so many emails! You’d think that by this stage I might find it easy to articulate the core of the matters that are being laid before us. And yet, I struggle. The matter is tricky, and I am not a prophetic Quaker. I rely on people around me to grasp the core of what we are hearing when we discern the will of God. When I clerk Agenda Committee my role is to listen, catch hold of ministry, draw it into a minute, and hold it up to ask ‘Is this what you heard, too?’
