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1 HT: Barclay 19.41
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2 HT: Tell your Quaker story
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3 MB:
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4 At Univ, in early 1990s, moved into a new flat, I had agreed to take
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5 over that running of the EU Green Society. My flatmate Anna agreed a
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6 deal, that she would go to GS mtgs, if I would go to Quaker meeting,
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7 which was Victoria Terrace.
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8 Soon I felt the "secret power" and go "knitted in".
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9 Got to knwo YF, which was a help in what was then a pretty large
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10 Meeting. Even after Anna moved away, I kept going to Meeting, and
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11 after a year or so BCurr asked if I'd think about becoming a Member.
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12 I've been thinking about it ever since.
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13 While in A'dam, went to MfW there. Read more, and got more of a sense
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14 of how the Quaker thing worked, than I had a need to have done in a
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15 big Meeting.
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16 Moved to Porty in 2009, joined the very new Meeting, and shifted from
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17 "going to" CEdin, I was "part of" PMM. That meant [doing more]
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18 I like the "secret power" quote
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19 Did the Becoming Friends course, which among other things meant I read
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20 the "requirements" for becoming a Member for the first time.
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21 "at home and .." spoke to me very deeply.
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22 "accept the fundamental elements.." was new to me.
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23 Grew up in a classic Church of England agnostic family, not until
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24 Quakerism recognised an experience of something "beyond the physical"
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25 At home with "pratical expression of inward conviction"
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26 Struggled with "accept the manner of Quaker corporate worship and..."
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27 Turned to Quaker history, which led to a seeing a flowering of
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28 people's renegotiation of the relationship of people to the Divine,
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29 and that it was what allowed our special
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30 Which in turn lead to us being here today: MfCA is as vital a part of
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31 being a Quaker, and that means I'm ready to not just attend LM and AM,
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32 but to attend _as a Member_.
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33 JD: How were your anarchist inclinations at odds with our goverance?
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34 MB: Grind slow, but exceedingly fine. Quaker business is very
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35 _slow_. [Lightbulb changing and other jokes]
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36 Ministry, here, now, without any qualification feels very different to
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37 me.
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38 HT: Like
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