Our title for Spring Gathering 2026 is Witnessing Borders: Faith, Identity and Conscience. This title emerged through reflection on the conversations opened by last year’s focus on conflict, integrity, and faith.
We were drawn to borders as a theme as one that could be understood in many contexts: physical and political boundaries, but also social, economic, and spiritual divisions that shape how we see ourselves and one another.
The language of “witnessing” invites us not only to notice borders, but to consider what they demand of our faith and conscience, particularly when borders are upheld through exclusion or violence.
Together, we hope to explore how borders influence identity, how they evolve, and what it means, as a Quaker community that spans borders, to respond to the human cost of their enforcement.
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