Dear Friends, ’I have this thing’, sings Taylor Swift, ‘where I get older but just never wiser.’I know the feeling. Having reached the grand old age of 49, I find … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 7th May 2023
Dear Friends, Today I watched a fly. She had landed on the window ledge and had touched a single silvery strand of spider web, long since missing its web. The … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 30th April 2023
Dear Friends, It occurred to me that you might appreciate the first few pages of our Friend David Hitchin’s book. It seems to me to have resonance for us at … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 23rd April 2023
Dear Friends, AnointingAlthough we don’t use the word very much, large numbers of us use anointing as a therapeutic practice – those wary of the damage the sun can do … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 16th April 2023
Dear Friends, Last week I joined two memorial meetings, thanks to Zoom. One for a former colleague and one for someone whom I did not know well but whom I … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 9th April 2023
Dear Friends, “In Africa there is a concept known as ‘ubuntu’ – the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; that if we are to … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 2nd April 2023
Dear Friends, There are two much-loved images that come up over and over again, both in Quaker writings and in spoken ministry: the Light, and the Seed. You can find both images … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 26th March 2023
Dear Friends, Helen Minnis wrote the Swarthmore Lecture in 2022. The chosen topic was racism. Helen is a professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has spoken out about race issues … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 19th March 2023
Dear Friends, Quaker silence has a nature all of its own. It is not the same as a room with no noise in it, although a quiet room helps us … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 12th March 2023
Dear Friends, Some 20 years ago my family and I lived in Ghana for a while and during our stay we sometimes attended Hill House Meeting in Accra. On the … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 5th March 2023
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