Friends at the World Plenary in South Africa. Photo: FWCC.
Friends at the World Plenary in South Africa. Photo: FWCC.
World Plenary is not like other Quaker gatherings, wherever you are in that world. As Friends from ninety-five Yearly Meetings (YMs) and worshipping groups met for the Opening Ceremony, they did so to the sound of electric guitar – a video of the South African singer Jonny Clegg ‘searching for the spirit of the great heart, under African skies’. The Meeting did quieten a little after that, but – joyously, gloriously – not for long.
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