With a tender hand
Geoffrey Durham welcomes an absorbing and inspiring new book for elders and overseers and believes that it speaks to all of us
On the cover, it is subtitled ‘a resource book for eldership and oversight’. In her Epilogue, the author calls it ‘a toolkit for discernment’. I would go further than both. I have read Zélie Gross’s With a tender hand three times now, twice from cover to cover, once dipping at random over a period of weeks, and I want to say clearly that in my view she has written an essential maintenance manual for twenty-first century British Quakers. It is a fine companion to Quaker faith & practice.
I expect With a tender hand to become a regular source of inspiration for each of us: elders and overseers, yes – but also clerks and committee members and trustees and wardens and chaplains and the ones who hope one day to have time for a Quaker job and the ones who fear they never will. It covers the ground. I have found it endlessly absorbing.
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