Essays on the future of Quakers
In late 2009 the magazine Friends Quarterly ran a prize essay
competition on the 150th anniversary of a similar competition - with
the same topic, namely "The Future of the Religious Society of Friends
(Quakers) in Britain".
The three prize-winning essays can be read on the Friends
Quarterly website here (in a new window).
A report of the autumn Gathering of Hampshire, South East Dorset and the Islands Quakers in 2010, where the prize-winning essays and general views of the future were discussed, can be seen here (in a new window):
"What shall we keep? What shall we change?"
All the submitted essays (apart from a few where the writers did not want them to appear) - over 100 in total - have been available on the website of The Friends Quarterly, at
www.thefriend.co.uk/fq including essays by three current members of Hampshire and Islands Area Quaker Meeting. However the hesitance of the three local authors about appearing to be immodest has meant that the essays have not been made more
widely available, but it has now been agreed (April 2011) that they can be made available for viewing on this website (each in a new window).
If you wish to make a comment on any of the essays, or more generally on the future of the society, you can send it
here. Comments or extracts will be made public on this page after review by the editors.
