Junior Yearly Meeting

Junior Yearly Meeting started today and you can follow our young Friend musings on what happens at our other site: http://jymblog.org.uk.

Thoughts about Quakers in the media

Yesterday, Thursday 23 July, the Quakers sent off their press release about committed relationships coming up at Yearly Meeting. It is an interesting angle to take. Put cynically, all that is being announced is that Quakers are going to do some talking and listening. Is that all that Quakers can offer ahead of their Yearly [...]

One Friend’s committed relationship

Ahead of setting off for York, caddir writes of her own committed relationship: ‘I have just waved my beloved off to work. I was dreading the parting – more than a week without him. My love for him has deepened over the years, and my committed relationship to him is much in my thoughts. Read [...]

Ekklesia stokes controversy

Over at liberal Christian thinktank Ekklesia is a news report by staff writers about Britain Yearly Meeting, is headlined ‘Same-sex commitment controversy likely to dominate Quakers’ conference’ begins: ‘Around 1,600 British Quakers will gather in York tomorrow for Yearly Meeting Gathering, their week-long annual conference. The event is likely to be dominated by a decision on [...]