9 October 2022
Dear Friends, I have been thinking about unity and how it doesn’t mean uniformity, about unison which doesn’t mean everyone sings at the same pitch, and how when humans come … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 9th October 2022
30 September 2022
Dear Friends, Sunday is World Quaker Day – an initiative of the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) to help us all be better aware of the global spread of … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 2nd October 2022
24 September 2022
Dear Friends, As I write the mood of the country is undergoing a perceptible shift as life returns to a kind of new reality following the Queen’s funeral. For days … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 25th September 2022
20 September 2022
Dear Friends, The Nicene Creed, dating from 325, states that ‘the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father’. In 1054 the Pope added the word ‘filioque’ (and from the Son). What … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 18th September 2022
9 September 2022
Dear Friends, I do believe that there is a power which is divine, creative and loving, though we can often only describe it with the images and symbols that rise … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 11th September 2022
6 September 2022
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together. Ecclesiastes 3:5 Within the next few weeks the builders move in. In 1784 Friends moved from the … Reflections on Lewes Meeting House
2 September 2022
Dear Friends, Recently, my younger daughter’s class at school was given the opportunity to ask the local vicar any questions they wanted. My daughter reflected on this afterwards and said … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 4th September 2022
26 August 2022
Dear Friends, Last Sunday at Meeting for Worship we heard ministry about a story from John’s Gospel, where Jesus rescues a woman from being stoned for adultery. Faced with the … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 28th August 2022
19 August 2022
Dear Friends, Now that our Resident Friends have moved on and are supporting another Meeting, I have found myself going into the Meeting House more frequently than before. I have … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 21st August 2022
12 August 2022
Dear Friends, When I first came to Quakers I was struggling a bit to merge my idea of a personal god to whom one spoke (and hopefully also listened) with … Message from the Pastoral Care and Eldership Team (PaCET) for Sunday Meeting 14th August 2022