Yearly Meeting 2022: Session 5 - Action: Learning uncomfortable lessons & taking forward our witness

‘Friends needed to adjust their individual behaviours, but also contend with the structures that enable racism.'

by Joseph Jones 3rd June 2022

Appropriately, after the tough last session, Session Five looked at Action: Learning uncomfortable lessons and taking forward our witness. With elders again calling for ministry, one Friend said he had gone for a walk after the last session, to Tavistock Square, where there is a statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He was a person of faith, said the Friend, and a ‘person who collected community around him’. It was a good thing he was nearby, ‘a memorial of how things can be changed’.