Category: Social Justice
Posts about ideas, practices and thoughts inspired by the need for social justice, especially how they connect to our work in the world.
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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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AdventWord 2024: Prepare
The Pressure of Preparation This time of year, brings a lot of pressure to be prepared, and so much going on it can quickly become overwhelming. For any walk of life, it is easy to get swept up in the material things, to ensure we tick off the numerous tasks we feel we should complete
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AdventWord 2024: Safety
Supporting Mental Health This Festive Season The word safety often brings to mind physical protection – keeping ourselves safe from harm, accidents, or danger. As we approach the festive season, it’s also essential to think about mental safety – the emotional and psychological security that helps us navigate life’s challenges, particularly during times of increased
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AdventWord 2024: Abound
What is Abounding? Abound is not a word I use often in conversation. But when I saw this on the list of words for AdventWord this year, two quotations came to me which I’ve included below. Social Justice is for me linked to the idea of equality and being aware of my own privilege and
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Quaker A-Z: X is for X-ray
X-rays look through to the supporting structures An X-ray gives transparency and vision that cuts through and sees what is important in an organisation. The end of the year is always a good time to take stock – to review what you’ve successfully completed, where things didn’t develop or complete as expected, or perhaps what
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All the colours
Letting the Light shine through Together with colours, it is always wonderful to get to see Friends and catch up. But also to join new conversations and discussions in corridors, and over meals. Last weekend I attended the Future of British Quakerism Conference in Yarnfield. We were joined by a very young Friend who ministered joyfully
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Quaker A-Z: S is for Slices of Power
Swarthmore Lecture 2024 I was inspired and challenged by Ben Jarman’s lecture at Yearly Meeting a couple of months ago. You can watch all of it on YouTube – linked below. The idea I was most challenged by was the idea of ‘slices of power’, which Ben introduced about an hour into the lecture where
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Quaker A-Z: H is for Honorarium
What is an honorarium? An honorarium is a voluntary fee for voluntary service, a usually small sum of money given to someone as a token of esteem for some work they’ve done. It’s another name for a gift, fee, or some form of payment for services rendered. An honorarium is an ex gratia payment, i.e.,
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Quaker A-Z: B is for Benefit
Edited Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash What do we mean by Benefits? Legally all charity trustees must work for the overall benefit of their charity. Your governing document will list the charity’s purposes, and any annual reports etc. should refer to them. However, all charity trustees must ‘have regard’ for the various charity acts
