‘Meeting together is enriching, but it presents particular challenges for liberal Friends.’ Photo: Image: youngrobv on Flickr

‘It was probably one chance in a lifetime to visit Friends on a distant continent.’

World plenary: Peter D Leeming remembers a 1991 visit to Honduras

‘It was probably one chance in a lifetime to visit Friends on a distant continent.’

by Peter D Leeming 26th August 2022

The plans for Friends World Committee for Consultation’s world plenary (see Tim Gee’s article, 14 July) are ambitious and exciting. They are also timely. A spirit of separation and exclusion is spreading throughout the world, tearing communities and nations apart. Now, more than ever, faith communities are called upon to proclaim their experience of loving solidarity, and to claim it for all.