Category: Inclusion
Posts on how to ensure our buildings, facilities, charities and communities can include everyone.
How can we build a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome?
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Quaker A-Z: G is for Gender Neutral Language
Quakers have a testimony to equality. For over sixty years Quakers in Britain have struggled with gender and sexual equality. Gender inclusive or gender neutral?
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AdventWord 2022: Purify
Definition: To purify is to remove contaminants, extract something or make it ceremonially clean. Organisation culture… I want to explore this concept from an organisational perspective. How do you purify your organisation’s culture? Extensive research into the matter concludes that creating a great culture internally, in turn, enhances the customer experience. An organisation will thrive
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AdventWord 2022: Beloved
What is love? Photo by Renate Vanaga Donāt start singing that nonsense 90s song at me. I want a serious answer. Because this is a question which has haunted me for most of my life. What is love and what does beloved actually mean? I say āhauntedā because most of the definitions of love Iāve
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Hybrid Working & Worshipping
How have you found hybrid working and worship? Do you have any suggestions on how to make it work better?
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AdventWord 2022: Unity
Garry Butterfield Unity does not mean āuniformā or āun-individualā. We only have to look around us to see that we live in a vibrant, thriving, ever-changing world. Living in harmony does not require us to agree on everything; a thriving vibrant community will be made up of members who have as many opinions as there
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AdventWords 2022: Mountains
Respect the wide diversity among us in our lives and relationships. Refrain from making prejudiced judgments about the life journeys of others. Do you foster the spirit of mutual understanding and forgiveness which our discipleship asks of us? Remember that each one of us is unique, precious, a child of God. QF&P: 1.02.22 Tim Gouw
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AdventWords 2022: Teach
Photo: Tim Mossholder Quakers believe that we are all equal before G-D, and that the spirit of G-D is at work within each of, making us both teachers and students throughout our lives.Ā Ā How does this work practically?Ā Well, as a facilitator or a teacher you arenāt just providing or pouring in information, but
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AdventWord 2022: Together
As a meeting āgathersā, as each individual ācenters downā, there gradually develops a feeling of belonging to a group who are together seeking a sense of the Presence. The āIā in us begins to feel like āweā. At some point ā it may be early in the meeting or it may be later, or it
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#AdventWord 2019: 19 Bless
By occupation he was a barber, and on moving into this district in 1937 from Swindon, he first took a shop in Wallington, and later one in a poor part of Croydon. Not all who went there did so for a shave or a haircut, but to enjoy its friendly atmosphere, and to talk to
