19th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part fifteen

by Lis Burch, Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, Alastair Reid, and Elinor Smallman

A preparation session on Truth and integrity in public life was held by Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee (YMAC). The seventy-six Friends who gathered first watched a video…

19th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part sixteen

by Lis Burch, Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, Alastair Reid, and Elinor Smallman

In Peace Works Zimbabwe (PWZ), Don Rowe, clerk to the group, elaborated to a select nine Friends on the work he introduced at the previous QAIG gathering. After the closure of the…

19th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part seventeen

by Lis Burch, Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, Alastair Reid, and Elinor Smallman

A special interest group on Engaging with the new government was led by BYM’s public affairs team. Grace Da Costa and Billy Vaughan said the team was keen to be involved in…

19th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part eighteen

by Lis Burch, Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, Alastair Reid, and Elinor Smallman

On Wednesday, Quaker chaplains were out in force, beginning with Quaker chaplaincy: What Quaker chaplains do and are you interested in being one? Naomi Major, of Quaker Life,…

12th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part one

by Writing by: Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman
12th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part two

by Writing by: Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman

At a session on Alternative forms of Quaker community, Jude Acton and Rachel Matthews, of Quaker Life, talked about what central support was available for Friends whose Quaker…

12th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part three

by Writing by: Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman

A dozen Friends gathered on Saturday morning for Footsteps on the crag: Pardshaw Quaker Centre. David Day and Dave Moll, trustees of the Grade II-listed Meeting house, told…

12th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part four

by Writing by: Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman

On Saturday evening the Quaker Arts Network asked How do the arts envision our witness? Amanda Jones, from the network, began by discussing some of its output over many years, most…

12th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part five

by Writing by: Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman

In Getting it right; How should Christians talk about antisemitism? twenty-seven Friends were joined by Nathan Eddy from the Council for Christians and Jews (CCJ), and Anna Krauss,…

12th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part six

by Writing by: Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman

What might a Quaker testimony to kindness look like? This was the question considered during Exploring a Quaker testimony to kindness, which was led by Alistair Fuller and Ruth…

12th July 2024

Yearly Meeting 2024: Preparation - part seven

by Writing by: Rebecca Hardy, Imi Hills, Joseph Jones, and Elinor Smallman

A moving session by Quaker Voices on Mental Health (QVoMH) was held on Sunday. John Miles, clerk, introduced the session to thirty-three Friends. He gave a brief history of…