Tag: Swarthmore Lecture
Posts that refer to a specific Swarthmore Lecture, or the entire series.
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Quaker A-Z: G is for Good Governance
What’s so good about governance? Unsurprisingly when I saw this post would go live on April 3rd – Good Friday I couldn’t resist using a title with Good in it. However, also unsurprisingly I’ve written about both compliance and governance many times. Two years ago when we were doing a Trustees’ A-Z series the G
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Kindness
How can we be kind? Kindness is often mistaken for passivity or politeness, but true kindness is deeply courageous. It requires us to stay present in difficult moments, to act with integrity, and to see the humanity in others even when we disagree. For Quakers, kindness is rooted in the belief that there is that
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Quaker A-Z: T is for Together
Being Surprised I love Yearly Meeting and go whenever it is possible. I find that it is part of the foundation of my grounding and rootedness in British Quakerism. It helps me to reconnect to the community as a much wider group. I see and am together with my regular Meetings for Worship (online and
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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: G is for Good Governance
What is Good Governance? Governance is the process of decision-making and the process by which those decisions are implemented or not. Governance is used in a range of contexts from international law, the running of countries down to the most local level. In each context there will be a range of people or organisations involved
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AdventWord 2023: Laughter
I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. Ellen DeGeneres Tweet Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash Right sort of Laughter Laughter, for me, should be full of love, compassion and acceptance for both the
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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: S is for Sustainability & Stewardship
These are two words with complementary meanings. Sustainability In general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes. The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture. At BYM Canterbury in 2009 Quakers made a corporate decision to become a sustainable low-carbon community. Receiving
