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1 *Meeting for Sufferings*
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3 23--25 November 2018
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5 Henry S. Thompson, SE Scotland AM representative
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7 All the papers for the meeting are available online at
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9 http://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-november-2018-agenda--papers-packagev5
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11 The minutes and other follow-up material are available from
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13 http://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/mfs-2018-11-follow-up-package2
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15 This was a residential meeting, at Woodbrooke, and the opportunity to
16 carry discussions forward in the corridors and over meals was very
17 valuable, as was the opportunity to get to know people informally.
18 Staying at Woodbrooke provides a rare occasion of living in
19 "Quaker-time" [1] for much longer than just a Sunday morning: I recommend
20 it!
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22 *Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations*
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24 QCCIR have been busy, with a very extensive research effort on "The
25 Changing Face of Faith" [1]. The first part of this was discussed at
26 a conference in March, there will be another in March 2019 to which
27 AMs are invited to send representatives: "Area Meetings are encouraged
28 to send representatives to share local experience and learn for
29 experience in other parts of the yearly Meeting.":
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31 http://www.quaker.org.uk/our-organisation/our-structures/quaker-committee-for-christian-and-interfaith-relations
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33 "Quakers just get on and do what they say they're going to do"
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35 Sustainability efforts can drive ecumenical engagement rather than the
36 other way around (Bristol AM)
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38 *Quaker Peace and Social Witness*
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40 Promoting a new film, _War School_, "this film from Pow Productions
41 takes a closer look at militarisation in Britain":
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43 https://www.quaker.org.uk/our-work/peace/challenging-militarism-1#heading-1
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45 *Quaker World Relations Committee:
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47 Promoting a new film, _Quakers and Climate Change around the World_:
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49 http://fwcc.world/sustainability-resources
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51 *Books of Discipline revision*
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53 We have Co-Clerks for the BoD Revision:
54 Rosie Carnall, Sheffield and Balby AM
55 Catherine Brewer, Northumbria AM, Durham LM
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57 Over 300 Friends have volunteered to serve on the BoD Revision
58 Committee, so, it's probably too late to volunteer...
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60 *Trustee's strategic priorities*
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62 "A simple church supported by a simple charity"
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64 Brilliant presentation by Ingrid Greenhow, Clerk to Trustees for just
65 a bit longer, and Paul Parker, Recording Clerk, on new strategic
66 priorities, BYM Trustees: see the diagram
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68 http://hst.name/RSoF/Trustees_strategy_2018-11.png
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70 or read the report in the papers linked above.
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72 * Recommendations from the Review of the Committee on Clerks*
73 [A bit of a procedural mess, ask me if you are interested in the
74 minutiae of BYM procedures]
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76 "Nominations is the holiest thing we do" [Elsie Dick]
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78 *Sustainabilty Group, again*
79 We laid down the Sustainability Group, but Liz Birch did not go
80 quietly, in the best possible way.
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82 She raised again the elephant in the room: what does it actually mean
83 in concrete practical terms for YM to adopt a concern? Substitute
84 'AM' for 'YM' and you have something we've known we need to address, if
85 not how...
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87 "Are [we] ready to be held accountable on how [we] are working towards
88 sustainability?"
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90 *Diversity*
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92 We have a new Inclusion and Diversity Coordinator at Friends House,
93 Edwina Peart. She quite sensibly suggested that we need to know where
94 we actually _are_ before we can decide what we need to _do_. She's
95 produced a survey:
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97 http://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/quakersurvey
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99 which I would encourage everyone to fill in, it's quite short.
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101 People might also be interested in Quaker Life Central Committee's new
102 statement on gender diversity, which was introduced to us by Jocelyn
103 Bell Burnell:
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105 http://www.quaker.org.uk/documents/qlcc-gender-diversity-statement-for-discussion-2018-11
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107 Finally we should consider sending a representative to the national
108 gathering at Woodbrooke 18th-20 January, ‘Answering that of God in
109 everyone’, albeit it's only a few days away:
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111 https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/item/answering-that-of-god-in-everyone-a-diversity-and-inclusion-national-gathering/
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113 [1] For more on this concept, and Woodbrooke, Friends may be
114 interested in a something I wrote some time ago: _Reflections on
115 Woodbrooke_ (http://hst.name/RSoF/woodbrooke_thoughts.html)