time for a Quaker unconference

[Barbara Harrison]

What I remember ( I think) from my one visit to Ohio Yearly Meeting (Conservative) was that they set the agenda in the Meeting of Ministers and Elders (I think it was called) held the night before; but that was in 1980 and may not be the current practice.

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[simon gray]

On 9 January 2013 20:42, Barbara Harrison <barbar...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What I remember ( I think) from my one visit to Ohio Yearly Meeting
> (Conservative) was that they set the agenda in the Meeting of Ministers and
> Elders (I think it was called) held the night before; but that was in 1980
> and may not be the current practice.

that's probably the actualité of what was reported to me, having been
confused by a combination of the person who told it me reporting
something they'd heard rather than seen for themselves, and the
passage of years between the original conversation and me recounting
it now.

but i think the basic point stands, of rather than having an Edifice
of State spending nine months doing a lot of work on determining the
agenda for yearly meeting and preparing sessions and all that caper,
just having a bunch of people getting together to decide it the night
before.

(as it happens i'm not criticising the Edifice of State that does this
for britain yearly meeting - yearly meeting agenda committee was one
of the most rewarding quaker committees i've been on, and pretty much
everybody else i know who's been on it says so too)

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