Early Quakers were always moving forward
“We should face up to the fact that some of our old ways worked well for some people, but did not work well for others. Zoom has opened some new ways to include people, and enable more variety in how we do things.
And we absolutely need to make sure we find ways that include people who don’t find Zoom works for them, too – there’s a balance.
There can be some more fluid ways of us coming together as communities, without some of the boundaries of geography, or time, or money, so we can have Quaker communities with different kinds of shapes, different sorts of connections.
Somebody said to me a few weeks ago: Early Quakers were always looking for ways to connect more deeply, to connect with the divine and with each other. Sometimes they found things that didn’t work so well, and adapted. But they weren’t going ‘let’s just go back to how it has always been’. They were moving forwards, exploring, seeking. That’s the spirit of today.”
— Jonathan Carmichael, 2021
Manager of Britain Yearly Meeting’s Simpler Meetings Project
Today’s Invitation
Move forward, exploring and seeking.
This Week’s Query
What do you do differently during meeting for worship on Zoom compared to worshiping in person? What do you like about it?
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