Yearly Meeting 2022: Session 7 - Our all-age community, Closing session
'I don’t think we could have had the discernment we’ve had this weekend three or four years ago.’
Opening the final Session Seven, Siobhán Haire offered some reflections of her own. ‘I feel we’ve made progress, it feels tangible… I have sat at this table and at a desk in my spare room for the last couple of years as we’ve considered privilege and anti racism. I don’t think we could have had the discernment we’ve had this weekend three or four years ago.’ A travelling minute received via Vanessa Julye, visiting online from Philadelphia, spoke to the clerks strongly about ‘our growth edges – the place at the edges of our learning and understanding… where we’re probably feeling tender and a bit vulnerable. I think we’ve worked at a growth edge during this Yearly Meeting’.
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