Anne Watson
– with Friends from Other Meetings
I have been attending the Living in the Spirit sessions for the whole of OSAM, our Area Meeting. These last about an hour and take place by Zoom at 19:30 on the first Wednesday of the month. Like the Oxford sessions, they start with a short reading that has some meaning for the person who chose it; these can be Quaker writings, poems, biblical readings, or readings from other traditions. There is then a sharing of responses. I enjoy being with people from across our Area with whom I do not normally worship, but even so there is a lot that we talk about of our deeper selves – the kinds of insights and understandings that are not explicitly revealed in conversations over a cup of tea, or even in spoken ministry, and which I often only know by implication. I get a real sense of being in a community in which things of the spirit are openly and equally shared.
If you would like to join in, contact John Mason (john.mason@open.ac.uk) and he will put you on the mailing list so you can be given the link a couple of days before.
— with Friends from Oxford Meeting
The Oxford Living in the Spirit Meetings take place by Zoom at 16:00 on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. John Mason (john.mason@open.ac.uk) is also the contact for these if you would like to be added to the mailing list.
More articles in this month’s newsletter:
- May 2022
- Reflections during a zoom meeting 3 April
- Meeting for Worship 24 April
- The politics of place – and some local witnessing
- Monthly Appeal May 2022
- ‘Friendly Persuasion’
- Mutual Support Group – ‘Getting Older’
- Four Delusions and a Plea
- Note From the Gardening Team
- Britain Yearly Meeting is Seeking a Youth, Children, and Families Development Worker
- Waiting
- Living in the Spirit
- In Penn’s Shadow (1680-1720) – Philadelphia: The Great Experiment
- Addressing Environmental Issues as a Spiritual Community
- The Quakers: The Whites that helped the slavery abolishment
- Community Noticeboard Online, May 2022
- From Quaker Faith and Practice 24.21
- Meetings for Worship May 2022
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 517 • May 2022
Oxford Friends Meeting
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