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Tim Gee

@timquaker.bsky.social
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General Secretary, Friends World Committee for Consultation. Putting toe in the water of BlueSky after 14 years on Twitter.

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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Part of the role of the FWCC is to maintain positive and peaceful relations with our neighbours. Sometimes this means attending events in the lives of other communions on behalf of Quakers. The Church of England has just shared this picture from a meeting with Sarah Mullally earlier this year.
Tim Gee meeting Sarah Mullally the day after her installation as Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A year ago today I had the chance to give the Backhouse Lecture at Australia Yearly Meeting. A lot of thought went into it, and I'm grateful for how it was received. There are a few paper copies left, and the online version will go live soon. CC @quakersaustralia.bsky.social
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I was moved by this account of of the last days of Jim Palmer, (pictured below, centre) of Australia Yearly Meeting and treasure the memory of visiting his home around this time last year. australianfriend.org/dear-friend-...
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I think this is my favourite picture of me doing my job. (Yes, it isn't all like this, but joy, fellowship and worship including in song is certainly part of what we are here to foster). Credit: Mike Pinches
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The Epistle of James on a magazine cover! #Lifegoals thefriend.org/article/home...
Front cover of The Friend magazine, reading "We are called Friends, at least in part, thanks to the epistle of James'.
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Is this the peace testimony in 14 words? The Light of Christ, removing the causes of war, building the institutions of peace. Pictured in 3 Swarthmore Lecture titles.
Three Swarthmore Lectures pictured side by side, headed "The Light of Christ", "Removing the Causes of War" and "Building the Institutions of Peace"
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Just off the phone with Swarthmoor Hall. So much looking forward to going there with international Friends in May. In the meantime here's a recent news story about it's most famous historic inhabitant: www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/2588378...
Picture of Swarthmoor Hall, with sign on gate. C Quakers in Britain
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Today I held in my hands with the original 1666 edition of 'Women's Speaking Justified', by Margaret Fell, the first full length written defence of women in public ministry. There's a new modern English version coming soon, translated by @paulanderson88.bsky.social . Here's my summary:
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"When the song of the angels is stilled when the star in the sky is gone when the kings and princes are home when the shepherds are back with their flocks the work of Christmas begins" (Continues)
Black and White Picture of Howard Thurman
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I thought and prayed very hard about what to say with opportunity of giving the BBC Daily Service ahead of World Quaker Day. It was broadcast this morning. Here it is: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (Picture from the BBC Studios in London)
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I've just been sent this picture of me unblocking a sink in a meeting house on my travels. I think it's my favourite picture from my time in this role yet.
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Events in Australia often begin with an acknowledgement of the injustices which have happened on the land where we meet, now recognised as Genocide www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Let's not wait 180 years to recognise what is happening in Gaza as Genocide, and do all we can to stop it while we can.
Peace vigil in Victoria, AustraliaQuaker peace vigil in Victoria, AustraliaQuaker peace vigil in Victoria, Australia
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
You've heard of the Quaker Tapestry in Kendal, which was completed in 1996. Did you know about the Australian Quaker Tapestry which is still being stitched, including at Yearly Meeting this week? The panels are placed around the edge of the hall. Here are some of them.
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I've also found a book of (niche!) Quaker humour
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Apparently there was an early Quaker who protested titles by naming his children, 'Sir', 'Master' and 'Prince'!
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Swotting up on Australian Quaker history, ahead of Yearly Meeting beginning this afternoon
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Hello from Australia! I'm going to be giving the Backhouse Lecture in Melbourne on Monday. It's possible to watch online. See you there?https://www.quakersaustralia.info/resources/backhouse-lectures @quakersaustralia.bsky.social
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Excitingly, I have discovered that, although Emily Provance's brilliant Swarthmore Lecture wasn't printed in Britain, it was printed in Aotearoa by New Zealand Quaker Books. When I get home it might be the only one in the UK! Online version is here: www.woodbrooke.org.uk/research/swa...
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Currently visiting Friends in Aotearoa New Zealand. Thank you Marvin Hubbard for having me on your radio show: oar.org.nz/shows/commun...
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Visiting Friends in Auckland, and have had first sighting of the George Fox postage stamp!
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excited to be giving the Backhouse Lecture in Australia next month. Delighted that it already exists in paper form, at the Quaker Bookshop! Lecture announcement: thefriend.org/article/tim-... Print copy link: bookshop.quaker.org.uk/the-seed-is-...
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
When I sing in worship, I find my way to the same still small place that I reach in a mostly silent Quaker Meeting. Now I sing on the way to meeting, and sometimes on the way home too. It makes the cool spring of expectant waiting worship even more refreshing. westernfriend.org/magazine/voc...
Picture: Friends from Burundi singing worship at the FWCC World Plenary Meeting
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I've been trying to find words since the raid at Westminster Meeting House, and went there to be with Friends on Sunday. My mind though keeps coming back to this panel of the Quaker Tapestry: www.quaker-tapestry.co.uk/panels/keepi... The details are different but the parallels are obvious.
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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This juxtaposition of signs at a recent Friends World Committee for Consultation meeting (held in a Franciscan conference centre) made me chuckle every time I saw it. (For friends who aren't Quakers, the joke is that Quakers tend to bypass liturgy, although these were just directional signs)
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