Standing as witness to justice

In 1656, a Quaker schoolteacher from Bristol named Barbara Blaugdone found herself on a storm-tossed ship in the Irish Sea, surrounded by frightened men who had decided she was the cause of their troubles. She was not thrown overboard. But that moment captures something essential about who Barbara was --- a woman who spent fifty years seeing injustice clearly, identifying who had the power to change it, and going to stand in front of that person and say so. She was whipped, imprisoned, banished, and fined. She kept going back. This episode explores the spiritual practice of witness --- what it costs, what it changes, and who is carrying it forward in your world right now. Transcript available at: https://harmonia.email/podcast-episode/standing-witness-justice Share and read comments: https://harmonia.email/podcast-comments?field_podcast_feed_value=the_golden_thread&from_node=377