My first full day at YMG09

Despite avoiding too much busy-ness, I had a full day today. Up early for worship at 7.30 till 8, then after a leisurely breakfast it was nearly time to go into the morning session. The highlight of this for me was Colin Billett’s introduction to the topic of Committed Relationships. In a short twenty minutes [...]

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 [...]

Committed relationships: background reading

Documents in advance of Yearly Meeting (opens as a 2.3mb pdf file) has some of the background material to British Quakers consideration of committed relationships. See especially pages 35-36 and pages 61-64. Terms of reference (web page with doc links) include an article on the theology of marriage and a Quaker Life Central Committee report [...]

Central England Quakers

Gill Coffin reports on a Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship meeting that took place at the end of April, on the Central England Quakers website. Ten key issues emerged during the day, including The issues that emerged during the day included: Many people are not aware of the differences between marriage and civil partnership. Many [...]