Study groups at Leicester Quaker Meeting House       

1. BRITISH QUAKERS AND THE FUTURE

Some Leicester Quakers have been sharing a close reading of the prize-winning essays for the Friends' Quarterly.  Linda Murgatroyd's essay was the overall winner ('Holding Spaces for the Spirit to Act') and we have read that first. Many of us rendered 'holding spaces' in the down-to-earth form of simply 'making time'.  Then, reflecting on our reading, one member of the group penned these impressions:

For me the two main strands of the essay are .... that faith is meaningless without action (and there are many serious concerns that demand our action at this time), and .... that as Quakers we should consciously and creatively make time for our faith to really permeate our lives (put simply....Church is not just for Sundays).

Another member wrote:

.... Linda wants us to start doing things, to act, even if we are not sure quite how we will carry on moving forward, but ... we must let it be God that pushes us into making those first steps .... listening to what love requires of us, and then doing it.

We have also read the essays by Simon Best and Felicity Kaal. If you would like to keep in touch with this study, or join a further study group from April into June, please send us an email using the 'Get in touch' page of this website.

2. ADVANCE NOTICE OF ANOTHER NEW STUDY GROUP in October and November 2011

This will be an 8 to10 week study based on Chapter Two of Quaker Faith and Practice, ( "Approaches to God - Worship and Prayer").  It will run on Wednesday evenings and also on Thursday afternoons. Please contact Janet Thompson for more details.
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For information about previous study groups (ADVICES AND QUERIES Autumn 2010, or QUAKER HISTORY Spring/Summer 2010)
go to the Study Group Archive page.
 
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