You can’t predict politics! If you think back 10 years, no one thought that reality TV star would become president, nor that a man who had lost his party’s nomination for president for decades, would become president after that.

And predictions in the fast-moving world of technology are even harder: the creativity of AI has exploded, and no one saw that coming even three years ago.

Our Wrightstown Meeting is now 300+ years old and it’s hard to believe that the original founders of our Meeting imagined what the future would look like for the meeting in 300 years.

Religion in general is in decline and Quakerism is in decline—a 1997 statistical analysis indicates that by 2050 the last Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers will pass away.

Therefore, we need to keep an open mind about the future; we can’t succumb to the despair of what trends may indicate.

It may be that with the onslaught of climate change, atmospheric rivers, and drought that people will turn back to religion wondering if prayer may be the only thing that might save them from a bleak future.