Men’s Fellowship Breakfasts - April update - Richard Jackman.

The final breakfast of this season was held at The George in Longbridge Deverill on 7th April.

The speaker, Dr John Harris, sent breakfasters on their way both wiser and with their curiosity pricked about the Quaker faith. John’s background in education through a 30 year career at Bath University shone through, providing a fascinating insight into the origins of the Religious Society of Friends, as the Quakers are more formally known, and their modern practices. Founded by George Fox in the 1600s during England’s time without a monarch when Diggers, Ranters and Seekers were all looking for alternatives to established religious structures, breakfasters learned that the success of the Quaker movement was in major part down to the organisational skills of George Fox’s wife, Margaret,  complementing his vision for a faith based on silent worship, spoken ministry and collective experience that constantly seeks to find ’that of God’ in everyone. 

John asked if the speaker’s nominated charity could be a local one. Cornerstone in Warminster was suggested and £90 was raised.

The breakfast’s will resume on 6th October when local archaeologist Mike Allen, who has previously intrigued his audience at a breakfast with his explanation of how analysis of land snails can be a powerful tool in interpreting human activity in the past, returns to the speakers table. If you’re interested in attending the breakfasts why not mark this date and the subsequent first Mondays of the month through to April 2026 in your diary?