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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
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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 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
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“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
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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 -
#introduction This is me for you, introducing myself on my first day on this instance
Derbyshire born, married a Scot, byw yng Nghymru (living in Wales)
sometimes miss city life (Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester)
#linguist, #francophile, #humanist #quaker #GayGardenerConcerns:
#ClimateChange
#TransRightsAreHumanRightsLoves:
#whippets
#butterflies
grow your own food
all kinds of music from #shostakovich to #supremes to #SamSmith
#languages
dysgu cymraeg
board games
#Bridge
progressive politics -
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