Yearly Meeting 2024 - part six

‘We will throw minutes at you, but they’re important and beautiful.’ The Friend reports from Yearly Meeting 2024, Monday to Tuesday

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

The first three days of Yearly Meeting (YM) 2024 had ended with something of a cliffhanger. Proposals from the Group to Review Yearly Meeting, Yearly Meeting Gatherings and Meeting for Sufferings (GRYYM) had been considered, but those gathered had not yet found unity around them. The question of whether to replace Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) with a ‘continuing Yearly Meeting’ was therefore still up in the air on Monday morning as Session five began in worship.