Showing posts with label Britain Yearly Meeting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Britain Yearly Meeting. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

A way forward

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  In the Library. Thomas Pole. 1806 I have been giving some thought to what effect Britain Yearly Meeting 2023 has had on me. I have been go...
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Thursday, July 20, 2017

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2017 - Y for Yearly Meeting Gathering

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Back in 2013 I wrote a post about my experience of Yearly Meeting and as I said then I have been a regular attender for many years. Lon...
Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015-2016 - Q for Quaker Faith and Practice

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Britain Yearly Meeting is in the process of considering whether the time is right to embark on a full-scale revision of its current book o...
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Friday, May 08, 2015

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015 - H for Hope

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Speaking as someone who has often been tempted to give in to depression and despair, part of me is surprised that I now find myself called...
Sunday, March 08, 2015

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2015 - D for Dear Friends

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Every Yearly Meeting Clerk has their own style and few have been more distinctive in recent years than Christine Davis . When I heard of C...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - V for Variety

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How much variety (or diversity) is there among Quakers in the UK and worldwide, and is it a good thing? This is one of the questions being...
Saturday, September 06, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - Q for Questions

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Questions are at the heart of how Quakers have always expressed their faith, but these are not questions asking for certain answers or for c...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - N for Nostalgia

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I've been thinking about nostalgia quite a bit recently, partly because I've been spending time scanning old family photographs...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - L for Learning

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How do we learn about Quakers and Quakerism? The obvious answer, for me, is by reading, but when I have thought more I realise that this i...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - C for Calendar

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Although by general consensus February is the second month, for me, with my birthday falling on the 5th, February has always felt more lik...
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Friday, January 10, 2014

Quaker Alphabet Blog 2014 - A for Living Adventurously

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Ron Waddams. Living adventurously 'Live adventurously' is a very popular Quaker slogan, one of those phrases which we often repe...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Quaker Alphabet Blog Week 50 - Y for Yearly Meeting

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I can almost echo Amelia Opie when she said in 1843, 'Yearly Meeting has engrossed me much as usual, for I never missed one sitting si...