About

We do not own animals: we are their keepers, not their masters. With such responsibility comes a duty to care for them in a way that reflects the love and peace we profess. — Quaker Faith & Practice 25.08, Britain Yearly Meeting

About KOE Quakers

This site is a shared space for KOE Vegan Quakers to congregate. Our unprogrammed meetings will originally be online, with the option for in-person meetings, as the Spirit leads. KOE Vegan Quakers are Friends who understand that all sentient life is sacred - that all sentient life shares the inner light. This site and the meeting of KOE Vegan Quakers has been promoted by the Spirit, through Friend TūruapōGerald Tūruapō Jordan - vegan Friend who manages this site and social media accounts for KOE Vegan Quakers.

KOE Quaker Meetings

The meeting times will be provided to those who provide their details via our join us link.

About Tūruapō

My religious journey started when I was eight years old. The following year, I surrendered to a call to missionary work. Less than a decade later, at 18, I was driving off to university to study Theology. There is much more to this part of my story and I will discuss some of these things on this site.

More recently (1990s), I moved to the Southern Hemisphere and now Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia are home.

Lee

What else? I am a husband, a dad, a companion to Nietzsche the German Shorthaired Pointer, a cyclist, language enthusiast, traveller and more.

May all beings know peace!

Aroha nui,

Tūruapō ❣

The Peaceable Kingdom

We are not of this world, but are redeemed out of it. Its ways, its customs, its worships, its weapons, we cannot follow. For we are come into the peaceable kingdom of Christ, where swords are beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks, and none shall hurt nor destroy. — George Fox, Epistle 203 (1659)