Author: Wendrie Heywood
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Quaker A-Z: E is for Everyone?
Everyone? In February and March we celebrate, not everyone, but individual groups of society. Wendrie talks this week about the importance of being inclusive.
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Quaker A-Z: D is for Doing it Together
D is for – Doing it together. Wendrie shares insights into bringing communities together for the greater cause.
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Quaker A-Z: C is for Clearness & Committee
Communication can sometimes get muddled, this week Wendrie introduces us to Clearness Committees.
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Quaker A-Z: A is for Accountability & Authority
Accountability Counts Both Ways I find many people find these two words hard to deal with, especially Authority, ‘Quakers don’t deal well with authority’, ‘I don’t like authority’, or ‘I don’t want authority’ I get told. When I ask about Accountability – they often tell me they don’t like that for them. However they often
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Quaker A-Z: 2025 Introduction
Introducing Our A-Z Series for 2025 Exploring Communication, Collaboration, and Community – One Letter at a Time As we step into 2025, we’re excited to unveil our new bi-weekly blog series: the A-Z of Communication, Collaboration, and Community. This year, we’ll be diving into 26 powerful words – one for each letter of the alphabet
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Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zeal, Zest & Zen
Z words can be tricky After all, there are only between 426 (Scrabble dictionary) and 693 (Word Finder site) words beginning with Z in English. This is why I am going for Zeal, Zest and Zen. Plus, for each A-Z series, by the time I get to Z, it is not only the end of
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AdventWord 2024: Fruit
Fruit of the Spirit So many of my memories of Christmas include food. There are baked goods, savoury dishes, seasonal treats and of course the nuts and satsuma or orange in the toe of my stocking. When I’ve managed to grow or produce something for the Christmas meal, or another meal during the seasonal period
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AdventWord 2024: Come
The Advent Invitation to Come and Find Rest This is one of my favourite Bible verses. I like it in all translations, and have meditated on it and studied it many times. I tend to combine it and read 28 – 30 as a complete piece. When I learned that the yoke mentioned would link
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AdventWord 2024: Shine
Shine: The Power of Light December always brings a need for light and warmth, and today’s advent word captures that perfectly. For me, “shine” takes me back to 1997 and the Eurovision Song Contest. I was just a child when Katrina and the Waves performed Love Shine a Light, but I’ve never forgotten that moment.
