Yearly Meeting 2023: Session 1 - Opening session

‘Whatever we call the divine principle, we know that it’s a living one.’

by Rebecca Hardy, Elinor Smallman, Joseph Jones 5th May 2023

More than 1,500 Friends had registered to attend Yearly Meeting (YM) 2023, said incoming clerk Adwoa Burnley in its Opening Session (down from almost 2,000 in 2022). It would be the fourth time YM was enabling online attendance, and more than half of those registered intended to join that way. It was unlikely that all those Friends would attend every session, however: on this Friday night, The Light at Friends House was around one-third full.