Bristol Quakers

A workshop to connect with other Quakers of all ages and focus on what we’re called to do in the face of the crisis.

This Area meeting will have a significant focus on our ongoing concern for Climate & Ecology. We will be bringing a proposal for a Bristol Quakers Declaration of Climate and Ecological Crisis as well as a minute from Redland LM asking us to discern the appropriate action in relation to a concern on Quakers and the ‘Stop Ecocide’ campaign .
There will also be the need to decide our next steps in relation to the ‘right holding of Area Meeting’ which has been considered by Local Meetings recently.
We shall also receive a number of reports, which are published in this newsletter .

On the same day as Area Meeting we are all invited to

Food for Thought – our response to the climate & ecological crisis
Sunday 23rd February, 12.15-1.45pm at Horfield
A workshop to connect with other Quakers of all ages and focus on what we’re called to do in the face of the crisis.

Please bring your own packed lunch and come with an open mind!

Some Friends will find it a challenge to get to Horfield by 12:15 from their local Meetings for Worship, so feel free to join Horfield for their worship which starts at 10:30 am. Horfield is well served by buses and detailed directions can be found on our website here.

Richard Drake, Area Meeting Clerk

Saturday 14^th March 2020, 11 am – 12.30 pm 
at
The Peel Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences, University Road, Bristol BS8 1RL

The 2020 Bristol Quaker Peace Lecture is being given by Diana Francis, a lifelong peace activist, former President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation and co-founder of Rethinking Security.  Her lecture will look at:

• What is human security?
• The military myth
• Current crises: is there a way forward?
• Human nature: do we have what it takes?
• Vision for the future
• Diana Francis has worked for many years with local peace actors and combatants seeking to address violence and build peace: in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.  She has written extensively on the basis of that experience.

All are welcome to this free lecture.  Please book through Eventbrite [click here or search “Human Security” on the Eventbrite site]

[Please bring your own lunch, teas & coffees will be provided, short business meeting 3-4pm]

What do we mean by a good death?
An exploration of our feelings and preparations for living life to the full until the end.

Meeting for Sufferings has asked Quakers in Britain to consider assisted dying and believes
Friends want to explore questions about dying and death, as well as specific issues about
assisted dying. Bristol AM Elders invite you to this day conference to explore this subject in
several ways.

More information can be found here