Yearly Meeting 2024 - part nine

The Friend reports from Yearly Meeting 2024, Monday to Tuesday

by Rebecca Hardy, Joseph Jones, Elinor Smallman 9th August 2024

Session seven was held to deal with some of the practical issues resulting from the Meeting’s approval of the proposals for a ‘continuing Yearly Meeting’.

First, one Friend offered some emotional ministry. ‘Liberation does not look like anything that we [already] know,’ she said. ‘As Quakers we are, apparently, invited to be open to transformation. I’m struggling to see in my experience of this Yearly Meeting where that is… I feel that antiracism, which is the piece that speaks with me, does not get a lot of space.’