Other people’s reactions to our decision on same-sex marriages

It seems as though all the so-called quality newspapers have reported our decision in an even-handed way. I’ve read the online reports in the Guardian, the Telegraph (which simply records yesterday’s item from the BBC News website), the Times and the Independent. The Independent gets extra marks for including comment by Peter Tatchell, who is [...]

The meeeedia

I work with the media.  They want to know when something is going to happen and beforehand.  It is very difficult to have them a bit interested and then wait until the day after the decision has been made.  I think that the news reports I saw were fair… said we were close to making [...]

It is time, Friends

In an extraordinary series of meetings, Quakers gathered at York have endorsed same sex marriage, {readmore}seeking both to revise our handbook Faith and Practice, and also to seek changes in the law. There has been a palpable sense of movement as we have heard from couples and families, and we have moved further, with more [...]

We’re in the news

Yes, Friends, as Jez Smith has just pointed out on here, our process is already up and out there on BBC News. Colin Billett had a very brief slot on the Today programme, around 6.50am, and the news item was in the news headlines at 8am on Radio 4, as I understand it. It seems [...]

due process

britain yearly meeting has gone first to non-quaker media before its own members or own media with the story about same-sex marriage even before a decision has been taken. Will those of us who don’t listen to bbc radio 4 be at advantage or disadvantage while in session? For god’s sake I hope yearly meeting [...]

light asides

Things we’ve seen and noticed from YMG at York. Coots’ feet are big. Goose poo is big and green. I watched a man with a broom chasing some geese outside Vanbrugh College, so that they eventually jumped into the lake to escape him. The sign ‘Lost? Ask me’ amused many and quite a few variations [...]

After YM session

Friends, we had a session of Yearly Meeting this afternoon that dealt first with some nominations issues and then went onto the subject of committed relationships. We have not yet reached a minute on the subject so I won’t write substantively about where we are up to. But you can follow some of what happened [...]

a Friend interviewed

so how’s YMG going?

MC interviews Hank

simon gray at ymg