Ella Asheri
Ella Asheri (she/her) is Woodbrooke’s Programme Coordinator for Racial & Social Justice. She is a facilitator, educator and researcher with a particular focus on psychosocial…
Tuesday 30 September 2025
19:00-20:30 (UK time)
There is a popular myth in Quaker settings of a divide between faith and activism. Are they really separate? How might Spirit fire up our commitment to social change and sustain us? This session explores how faith and activism can strengthen each other.
Speaking from his experience as an Anarchist and his life since as a Quaker, Ben Pink Dandelion will lay out a clear Quaker understanding of how faith feeds witness – and how witness, in turn, feeds faith. This is an urgent conversation, aimed at helping Friends reckon with the challenges of walking a Spirit-led path of justice, while finding strength and community along the way.
This session, part of an interfaith series, is open to everyone, Quaker or not. It will include input from Ben, a chance to reflect on our own experience in smaller groups, and conversation around the topic. We hope it will give us all a chance to explore how activism and spirituality intersect in our own lives.
This session is part of a pair exploring the relationship between faith and activism from different perspectives. We also invite you to join us for Spirit-Led? Faith and Activism: A Jewish Perspective on Tuesday 28 October, where we’ll explore these themes from a Jewish viewpoint.
On the booking form, there is a chance for you to let us know about any accessibility or communication adjustments that will enable you to participate more fully in the course. Automated Zoom closed captions are available for all live sessions but if you feel you require more accurate closed captioning please email us directly in addition to booking.