Category: Quakers
Quaker specific content, theology, worship, training, community, both relating to Britain Yearly Meeting and the wider Quaker family.
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AdventWord 2024: Gather
Gather for Good: How Charities Can Strengthen Community and Boost Impact Through Connection For charities, to gather people together – whether in person or online – is more than just an event or meeting. It’s an opportunity to create a deeper sense of connection, inspire support, and foster lasting community relationships. By gathering supporters, beneficiaries,
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AdventWord 2024: Trust
Trust is a Tricky Word Can you have trust without truth is a question I remember asking teenagers which caused a long debate. They decided no – because if you have trust in something that isn’t true then it’s not really trust, but something else. This was long before ‘fake news’ and social media’s continual
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AdventWord 2024: Gentleness
Embracing Gentleness: A Reflection on the Nativity Mary and Joseph in a stable with their new baby is an image that we often see at this time of year. The story of how Jesus Christ was born in a stable after they had travelled to Bethlehem, is told in schools and churches across the world.
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AdventWord 2024: Rejoice
A Weary World Rejoices We’re almost half way through Advent today! As well as this AdventWord daily posting habit I have enjoyed Kate Bowler’s annual Seasonal devotionals, both Lent and Advent. This year’s is called ‘The Weary World Rejoices’ and you can download it by clicking on the picture-> Kate Bowler’s 2024 Advent Devotional Kate
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AdventWord 2024: Proclaim
Proclaiming the Everyday: Celebrating Life’s Small Wins In a world that often highlights big milestones, it’s easy to forget the power of small wins. It’s these everyday accomplishments – no matter how minor they may seem that can boost our energy, improve our mindset, and keep us moving forward. To proclaim the everyday is to
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for Yarn
A Good Yarn Firstly, in the last couple of A-Z blogs I’ve talked about reviewing your organisation and how you communicate with each other and further afield. Following this, I will refocus this time and talk about oral or verbal history and how that can enhance the meeting. In the last few years, I’ve been
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AdventWord 2024: Salvation
Salvation is a tricky word Quakers are remarkably quiet about Salvation – there are only a few references in Quaker Faith & Practice (the book of discipline for Britain Yearly Meeting) and a quick internet search will show a similar lack of discussion. We are more concerned in our own transformation, and how that plays
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AdventWord 2024: Righteousness
The Light of Righteousness: A Guiding Star for the Holiday Season As the holiday season surrounds us with twinkling lights, warm gatherings, and reflections on the year gone by, it’s a perfect time to consider what it means to walk in righteousness. Often misunderstood as unattainable perfection, righteousness is, at its heart, about aligning our
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AdventWord 2024: Joy
Joy to the World I’m sure I’m not the only person who when they think of that phrase hear it sung, or indeed have trouble not starting to sing the carol. I like that this beloved hymn was written by a rebellious son, Isaac Watts, who complained to his father that current church music didn’t
