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 Testimonies: Equality
What is a Testimony? A Quaker testimony is an action arising out a belief in something. They are core values that are often used to represent Quakers as a body. Living beliefs into Action As we were reminded at Yearly Meeting Quakers have testimonies OF something not TO something. We believe in something and try
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Insider Knowledge
If you are addressing a lack of attendance at a gathering or meeting, for example, one reason for the void could be a participant’s confidence in the knowledge that they could bring. It could be that you yourself question the contribution you could make. In this blog, we explore how insider knowledge can impact the
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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 Don’t 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 “haunted” because most of the definitions of love I’ve
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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 “uniform” or “un-individual”. 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. How does this work practically? Well, as a facilitator or a teacher you aren’t just providing or pouring in information, but
