Category: Quakers
Quaker specific content, theology, worship, training, community, both relating to Britain Yearly Meeting and the wider Quaker family.
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Quaker A-Z: A is for Annual Actions & Atomic Habits
It is all too easy to draw a line over the ‘old year’ and only look forward to the ‘new year’. It’s always best to take a few minutes to decide what you need to bring along with you into 2024. Are there lessons learned, new practices you want to continue? Or challenges you overcame…
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Quaker A-Z: 2024 Introduction
Legally, a trustee is someone who has formal responsibility for the charity – and therefore must act in the charities best interest. This is the same no matter how they’ve become a trustee – elected or appointed. A trustee may take on specific roles or tasks for the charity, but the over all responsibility is…
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Quaker A-Z: Z is for Zooming
Zooming – hybrid clerking This subject was suggested by several people – but the title is thanks to Rachel Muers. I’ve clerked hybrid meetings for many years – a professional Zoom account makes meeting far-flung clients and committee members easier. I ran one of the first Woodbrooke online courses. Over a long weekend, when I
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AdventWord 2023: Truth
“Stick with the truth, it’s easier to remember.” Has anyone ever told you that? I find the claim fascinating. I think it’s the psychopathy; we Cluster B folks seem to lack a certain mental “friction” that other neurotypes have when it comes to fabrication. Which does make me a fluid storyteller, a talent I’ve been
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AdventWord 2023: Glory
Photo by Cristian Palmer on Unsplash Living out our Testimonies As a Religious Society of Friends we see the … environmental crisis is at root a spiritual and religious crisis; we are called to look again at the real purpose of being on this earth, which is to till it and keep it so as
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Quaker A-Z: Y is for You!
You being a finite resource So often when I meet with a new or prospective client they start by explaining how hard they are working and yet they’re still not managing to do xxxxx. I like to remind them that they should consider rest as productive and feel capable of telling their appointing body that
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AdventWord 2023: Grace
What is Grace? Grace is such an unassuming word – comes from the Latin grātia and has interesting definitions… Grace – unearned favour from someone, often more powerful (human or divine!) Grace – can be unearned favour from and to yourself – accepting that you are human and imperfect. Grace – a title given to
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Quaker A-Z: W is for Worship
Foundation not garnish… Quakers hold and make decisions at their Business Meetings – more formally called ‘Meetings for Worship for Business’, sometimes called ‘Meetings for Worship with a concern for Business’. But whatever you call it is the foundation not a garnish or decoration like the flowers on the clerks’ table above. Every business meeting begins
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Quaker A-Z: V is for Visiting
Visiting Meeting Houses – in person or virtually… It may not surprise you to know I love visiting new meeting houses or revisiting those I’ve been to previously. Area Meetings or other occasions can be a great motivation to ensure that community members travel and get to see places they’ve only read or heard about
