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BLYM Supplement to Quaker Faith & Practice

We are delighted offer to you the link to the Supplement from Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting, to Quaker Faith and Practice of Britain Yearly Meeting.

Through many months of work some in our worship groups have compiled this compendium of material particularly relevant to Belgian and Luxembourger Friends. It was adopted at our June 2024 Meeting for Business, and has been distributed on-line in original and in machine translation to Flemish and French.

In a sense this supplement is part of the coming of age of Belgium and Luxembourg Quakers as a Yearly Meeting, for we have not had such a text of our own in the past, and still appreciate and rely on those of other Yearly Meetings including the ‘Red Book” of Britain Yearly Meeting.

We hope that you enjoy reading and using this supplement. As with all Quaker Faith and Practice texts, it is to be adapted and updated from time to time to continue to reflect our shared experience.

You can find the English version here

You can find the French version here

You can find the Dutch version here

Thoughts During Corona Time

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These texts were written during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic – an unprecedented time of loss. Millions of people around the world lost loved ones, many have lost their livelihoods and most of us lost the freedom to live our lives as normal. But many of us also found more time to reflect on our lives, our priorities and what a better future might look like.

We all had to adapt to unprecedented circumstances and Friends have been no exception. We moved to virtual forms of gathering which brought unexpectedly positive experiences but also challenges of worshipping via technological tools.

All of these experiences have inspired this collection of writings and we hope that it will grow.

If you wish to share one or all of the texts with friends, please contact the Clerk of BLYM (quakerclerk@gmail.com) out of courtesy to those whose texts they are.

Should you feel moved to share your own experiences, please contact the Clerk likewise.