Quaker Universalist Group Annual Conference
April 19th – 21st 2024 at High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire and online.
The future of religion worldwide.
- Why is this so important for us all?
- What is actually happening?
- What can we, as universalist Quakers, do about the future of religion?
We are delighted that the 2024 conference went so well. We moved to a different venue – High Leigh in Hertfordshire – and there were 50 participants, half in person and half online.
In due course we will print a pamphlet and place the recordings of the talks on the website.
Speakers at the conference
Jan Arriens is a well-known Quaker who last spoke to us at our conference in 2017 under the title ‘Mysticism – Between Head and Heart’. He has many interests, most recently being a co-founder of QTIG, the Quaker Truth and Integrity Group. He recently gave a talk on the future of Quakerism, so we look forward to his insights on this important topic.
Robert Wafula has been the Principal of Friends Theological College (FTC) in Kaimosi, Kenya, since October, 2014. Robert was educated in Africa and the USA and taught comparative religions, anthropology, cultural diversity and comparative literature at Columbus State College and at Central Ohio Technical College in Ohio. He will talk to us about the future of religion in Africa.
Peter Varney is a member of the QUG Committee and has spoken at several recent conferences, most recently last year on ‘An Overview of Creativity and Spirituality across the world’. He is a Quaker Elder and a retired, but active, Anglican priest. He will speak to us about what is happening with religion in the world today.
Tony Philpott is presently the Clerk of the QUG Committee and has spoken at several of our conferences, for example on ‘Truth – An Introduction’ in 2018. His book, From Christian to Quaker, was sent to all the local meetings in Great Britain. He will introduce the conference and explain why ‘the future of religion’ is so important to us as universalists.