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author Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date Sat, 10 Apr 2021 19:21:54 +0100
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1 Important initiative to put the matter of the relationship between BYM
2 the charity and AM charities. There's a request from BYMT to AMT to
3 feed back to them about this [ref. Agenda paper]. Online meetings
4 planned for May. Heading towards an MoU between BYMT and AM Trustees,
5 by the end of 2021.
6
7 Note that Wales is actually going ahead with a merger at the Charity
8 level!
9
10 Assisted dying: Deep sense of worship and care in the meeting
11
12 control of the body; we don't have a settled view;
13 unravelling the tangled web around how we die in this country is not
14 best started by pulling on the end labelled "legalise assisted dying"
15
16 Punt [with support for palliative care and the Hospice movement]
17
18 'Overseers' and 'Elders' -- AM encouraged to experiment with
19 alternatives both to names and to the structure itself.
20
21 Yearly Meeting Gathering 2021: Booking information coming soon, bookings open
22 in June
23 AM to be ask facilitate opportunities for fellowship, f2f if possible
24 3 weeks, intensifying in wk2
25 YM itself 30 Jul/6--8 August
26
27 Theme: For our comfort and discomfort: living our
28 testimonies of equality and truth
29 (Privilege and Climate Justice)
30 1) Responses to racism;
31 2) Working on our responses to gender diversity;
32 3) Faith-based actions in support of climate justice.
33
34 YM 2022: Unchanged at 27--30 May Friends House
35
36 Workshops coming soon on reorganisations towards a Simple
37 Church/Simple Charities
38
39 Jeffrey Dean: We can't go on as we did before, only meeting online,
40 but We need physical community sometimes _as well_.
41
42 Tradition vs. traditional_ism
43
44 [HST: My experience as I come to the end of 6 years on Sufferings
45 And the wide range of sources from which I've heard the same
46 thing
47
48 By a series of well-meaning, and individually not unreasonable,
49 steps, we have arrived at a point where Meeting for Sufferings
50 is no longer fit for purpose. Not so much because we're doing a
51 bad job at what we've been asked to do, piece by piece, but
52 because our business has grown and ramified to the point where
53 it is almost never the case (today's sessions on assisted dying
54 being a notable exception) that the full power and value of a
55 gathered meeting for worship for business are being brought to
56 bear.
57
58 So I was very pleased to see what I take to be the most
59 important sentence in the paper before us:
60
61 "The Working Group considered the core functions from first
62 principles, setting aside our understanding of existing
63 structures."
64
65 I hope almost _nothing_ will be off the table as we start
66 consideration of possible new approaches to the governance of
67 the Church and the Charity. What I mean by 'almost' is that the
68 place of Yearly Meeting in session as the ultimate worldly
69 source of authority for BYM is not, at least for me, at issue.
70
71 But _anything_ else, particularly wrt the Church, and what is
72 delegated to what bodies by BYM when it is _not_ in session,
73 needs to be rethought again from the ground up and the top down.
74 Sufferings obviously have a key role to play in this, and our
75 dissatisfaction with our current situation now needs to turn
76 into an energetic contribution to fixing it, even if this means
77 laying ourselves down in our current form (or indeed with our
78 current name).]
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