Welsh concerns
Christine Trevett reports on the Meeting of Friends in Wales on 23 June
If only he hadn’t had to conduct a marriage ceremony. Had he come, it might have felt like an historic moment of ecumenism. Local Friends had invited the vicar of Meifod in Powys to join Meeting of Friends in Wales in its Saturday afternoon session. In Meifod’s village hall Paul Parker, our recording clerk, would be speaking on the future of Quakers in Britain. There would be plenty of sandwiches and fruit cake at the end. The vicar’s seventeenth century predecessor in Meifod had been one of the most dogged opponents of early Friends in Wales. More than once he had published writings against them and he disinherited his daughter when she married one. His dislike of Quakers was, of course, matched by their dislike of him.
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