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In our Yearly Meeting for british quakers we’re half way through the first full day, this morning considering what radical peacemakers are meant to be. And in this my second bulletin I need to say our Quaker Rainbow meeting of queer Friends & allies after lunch made this weekend trip down to London for me all worthwhile. What a wonderful gathering of new friends & old - a very special occasion for me.

#quakers #quaker #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #today #FriendsHouse #QuakerRainbow

In our Yearly Meeting for british quakers we’re half way through the first full day, this morning considering what radical peacemakers quakers are meant to be. And in this my second bulletin I need to say our Quaker Rainbow meeting of queer Friends & allies after lunch made this weekend trip down to London for me all worthwhile. What a wonderful gathering of new friends & old - a very special occasion for me.

#quakers #quaker #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #today #FriendsHouse #QuakerRainbow

Waking up to the first morning at Britain Yearly Meeting 2025 in Friends House, London, and this is my first bulletin. Almost 2000 quakers attending in body or online, so hoping the fully blended experiment works. The clerks have a job I wouldn’t want.

#quakers #quaker #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #today #FriendsHouse

“Quakers rejoice in the things that make us different.”
The Yearly Meeting Gathering of Quakers in Britain came to an end yesterday. It was good to see the Quaker Rainbow stall was busy and it was good to meet and talk with other members of Friends LGBTQ+ Fellowship and interested visitors.

#Quakers #BYM #QuakerRainbow #lgbtq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMyQMS6r5fU

Time for a bit more about me..
I belong to Quaker Rainbow UK, a group of LGBTQ+ Friends & our allies. Our 50th anniversary was on 2023! It started as FHF Friends Homosexual Fellowship after a conference in Manchester 7 Sept 1973, one of the first groups within a religious body to support lesbian & gay folk in the 70s & the first in UK to affirm & celebrate equal marriage. That was one of the reasons I was drawn to quakerism. Another is the openness of UK Quakers to affirm folk of all kinds of religious or non-religious persuasion. Me I’ve since settled into a humanist/non-theist outlook. Another is the centuries (since the 1650s!) of hard learning that quakers have undertaken: how to abandon practises in human societies that have caused much suffering such as slavery, violence, war, the social class hierarchy, alcoholism, & in our day, the plundering & devastation of our planet
#quaker #QuakerRainbow #lgbt #lgbtq #humanist #nontheist #EqualMarriage #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #BritishQuakers #quakers #Friends

Time for a bit more about me..
I belong to Quaker Rainbow UK, a group of LGBTQ+ Friends & our allies. Our 50th anniversary was on 2023! It started as FHF Friends Homosexual Fellowship after a conference in Manchester 7 Sept 1973, one of the first groups within a religious body to support lesbian & gay folk in the 70s & the first in UK to affirm & celebrate equal marriage. That was one of the reasons I was drawn to quakerism. Another is the openness of UK Quakers to affirm folk of all kinds of religious or non-religious persuasion. Me I’ve since settled into a humanist/non-theist outlook. Another is the centuries (since the 1650s!) of hard learning that quakers have undertaken: how to abandon practises in human societies that have caused much suffering such as slavery, violence, war, the social class hierarchy, alcoholism, & in our day, the plundering & devastation of our planet
#quaker #QuakerRainbow #lgbt #lgbtq #humanist #nontheist #EqualMarriage #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #BritishQuakers #quakers #Friends

Time for a bit more about me..
I belong to Quaker Rainbow UK, a group of LGBTQ+ Friends & our allies. Our 50th anniversary was on 2023! It started as FHF Friends Homosexual Fellowship after a conference in Manchester 7 Sept 1973, one of the first groups within a religious body to support lesbian & gay folk in the 70s & the first in UK to affirm & celebrate equal marriage. That was one of the reasons I was drawn to quakerism. Another is the openness of UK Quakers to affirm folk of all kinds of religious or non-religious persuasion. Me I’ve since settled into a humanist/non-theist outlook. Another is the centuries (since the 1650s!) of hard learning that quakers have undertaken: how to abandon practises in human societies that have caused much suffering such as slavery, violence, war, the social class hierarchy, alcoholism, & in our day, the plundering & devastation of our planet
#quaker #QuakerRainbow #lgbt #lgbtq #humanist #nontheist #EqualMarriage #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #BritishQuakers #quakers #Friends

Time for a bit more about me..
I belong to Quaker Rainbow UK, a group of LGBTQ+ Friends & our allies. Our 50th anniversary was on 2023! It started as FHF Friends Homosexual Fellowship after a conference in Manchester 7 Sept 1973, one of the first groups within a religious body to support lesbian & gay folk in the 70s & the first in UK to affirm & celebrate equal marriage. That was one of the reasons I was drawn to quakerism. Another is the openness of UK Quakers to affirm folk of all kinds of religious or non-religious persuasion. Me I’ve since settled into a humanist/non-theist outlook. Another is the centuries (since the 1650s!) of hard learning that quakers have undertaken: how to abandon practises in human societies that have caused much suffering such as slavery, violence, war, the social class hierarchy, alcoholism, & in our day, the plundering & devastation of our planet
#quaker #QuakerRainbow #lgbt #lgbtq #humanist #nontheist #EqualMarriage #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #BritishQuakers #quakers #Friends

Time for a bit more about me..
I belong to Quaker Rainbow UK, a group of LGBTQ+ Friends & our allies. Our 50th anniversary was on 2023! It started as FHF Friends Homosexual Fellowship after a conference in Manchester 7 Sept 1973, one of the first groups within a religious body to support lesbian & gay folk in the 70s & the first in UK to affirm & celebrate equal marriage. That was one of the reasons I was drawn to quakerism. Another is the openness of UK Quakers to affirm folk of all kinds of religious or non-religious persuasion. Me I’ve since settled into a humanist/non-theist outlook. Another is the centuries (since the 1650s!) of hard learning that quakers have undertaken: how to abandon practises in human societies that have caused much suffering such as slavery, violence, war, the social class hierarchy, alcoholism, & in our day, the plundering & devastation of our planet
#quaker #QuakerRainbow #lgbt #lgbtq #humanist #nontheist #EqualMarriage #bym #BritainYearlyMeeting #BritishQuakers #quakers #Friends

@quakers You can order it at the German Yealy Meeting ([email protected]). Because it is not available in bookstores! If you want it in English, contact the British Yearly Meeting. The content is almost identical. #GYM #BYM 2/2

Hi #quaker mastodon! anyone else at #bym britain yearly meeting?

It’s a big day for me #today, unused as I am to some things many urban-dwellers take for granted: a train journey (to London) & being in gathering of 100s of people.
It’s British #quaker Yearly Meeting.
The hope (says the program) is it will help to:
• Release our energy
• Revitalise our communities
• Follow the leadings of the Spirit, to build a better world with integrity, & recognise & support truth in the wider world.
A big agenda….mmmm

#bym #quakers #Friends #QuakerRainbow

If you're at Britain Yearly Meeting in person, you can stop by the bookshop to get advance copies of Quaker Quicks books which are coming out later this year (including Kate McNally's excellent exploration of Quaker faith, pictured). On Saturday 29th from 5:30pm several authors, including me, will be there to talk about and sign books.

#books #Quaker #QuakerQuicks #BookSigning #YearlyMeeting #BYM @quakers @BritishQuakers

If you're at Britain Yearly Meeting in person, you can stop by the bookshop to get advance copies of Quaker Quicks books which are coming out later this year (including Kate McNally's excellent exploration of Quaker faith, pictured). On Saturday 29th from 5:30pm several authors, including me, will be there to talk about and sign books.

#books #Quaker #QuakerQuicks #BookSigning #YearlyMeeting #BYM @quakers @BritishQuakers

If you're at Britain Yearly Meeting in person, you can stop by the bookshop to get advance copies of Quaker Quicks books which are coming out later this year (including Kate McNally's excellent exploration of Quaker faith, pictured). On Saturday 29th from 5:30pm several authors, including me, will be there to talk about and sign books.

#books #Quaker #QuakerQuicks #BookSigning #YearlyMeeting #BYM @quakers @BritishQuakers

If you're at Britain Yearly Meeting in person, you can stop by the bookshop to get advance copies of Quaker Quicks books which are coming out later this year (including Kate McNally's excellent exploration of Quaker faith, pictured). On Saturday 29th from 5:30pm several authors, including me, will be there to talk about and sign books.

#books #Quaker #QuakerQuicks #BookSigning #YearlyMeeting #BYM @quakers @BritishQuakers

If you're at Britain Yearly Meeting in person, you can stop by the bookshop to get advance copies of Quaker Quicks books which are coming out later this year (including Kate McNally's excellent exploration of Quaker faith, pictured). On Saturday 29th from 5:30pm several authors, including me, will be there to talk about and sign books.

#books #Quaker #QuakerQuicks #BookSigning #YearlyMeeting #BYM @quakers @BritishQuakers

We had the first meeting of our new committee today. Great to see #QCA back in action, planning lots of contributions to Britain Yearly Meeting #BYM at the end of April.

We had the first meeting of our new committee today. Great to see #QCA back in action, planning lots of contributions to Britain Yearly Meeting #BYM at the end of April.