Angelina Conti on the Quaker youth book and cross-branch work. From my work on the youth book I’ve developed a rough toolkit for cross-branch and cross-cultural work which I think is applicable outside the Quaker world. It’s a work in progress, but here are the tools more or less in order: Prepare and educate yourself in order to cultivate cultural sensitivity; cultivate your own Quaker translator; practice hospitality; acknowledge the hurt, the distrust, and the history; once you have begun a friendship or rapport with someone, have the hard conversations; engage with the disparities of wealth both worldwide among Friends and in your home community; ask the big questions.

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