Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 27th June 2026

Dear Friends,

I have learned to reject everything that can be said in words about ‘God’ claiming to be absolute truth, but I have learned that words, inadequate as they are, are necessary to test and sharpen my intuitions in mutual sharing with others.

God is revealed to individuals through models suited to their temperaments and abilities; to communities through models suited to their culture. Nor will the interpretation of these models always be the same. Each one is only a guide to the truth that is greater than them all yet accessible in the nearest and simplest way… As our experience widens we are brought closer to aspects of God which we did not understand before. But we are compelled to respect the experience and response of others. If there is no one model of the truth and if no model is essential then there is no basis for authoritarianism or heresy-hunts. Our own vision is widened by the vision of others.

Janet Scott, 1980

David Hitchin

Quakers value diversity. We share this Friend’s message in the hope it will speak to others.

Pastoral Care and Eldership Team: Patricia Cockrell, David Hitchin, Sharon Krummel, Tim Pitt-Payne, Emily Slater.