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

Swarthmore lecture reaction

Thursday morning in the rain

Thursday morning in the rain A lot of anticipation about the big discussion on committed relationships. Plus a few musings on the theology of rollercoasters; we went to Flamingoland in the rain yesterday. There is a feeling that we have been working on that issue now for several days in response groups, small meetings – [...]

Coast and Cliffs walk

Yesterday I went walking along the stretch of the Cleveland Way which passes up the coast to Robin Hood’s Bay. I think there were about 80-90 Friends on the walk altogether. We travelled there in two coaches and then walked in 4 parties. It rained rather a lot. We had a late lunch in the [...]