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: N is for Numbers
Flipchart from Alison Gray’s presentation. Or Finances – for those who don’t like numbers! Spreadsheets can be complicated and off putting. Trying to explain who spends what, and why it’s important that we know who spends what and when they spend it can be tricky to get across. ‘We don’t need a budget‘ is something
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Membership
Membership is a tricky word Quakers talk about Membership (note the capital M) and mean someone who has formally been recorded as a member of a specific Area Meeting. But in this post, I’m thinking about what helps us feel that we belong to a worshiping community – whether or not we’ve been formally recorded.
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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
