Issue 21-01-2022
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Thought for the Week: Neil Morgan comes back for more
I attended Yearly Meeting Gathering in Friends House in 2018, when the decision was taken to revise Quaker faith & practice. I remember someone standing up to minister and saying something along the lines of ‘I do not believe in worship, that’s old fashioned’. Personally, I do worship. Indeed, I...
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On song: Rebecca Hardy interviews musician and playwright Anaïs Mitchell
There’s a line in an Anaïs Mitchell song that goes: ‘And there ain’t a thing that you can do / When the weather takes a turn on you / Except for hurry up and hit the road / Any way the wind blows.’ The song is ‘Any Way the Wind...
Knowing your strength: Elaine Miles reads from the gospel of John
The authorised version of the New Testament of 1611 translates John 14: 16-18 as ‘And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter’. It then uses the word ‘comfortless’ in verse 18.
Minding the time: Simon Webb on an ‘esteemed’ Quaker of Delaware
In May 1811, Aaron Cooper was abducted from his home in Kent County, Delaware. Five men came out of the night, tied him up with ropes and carried him off, leaving behind his wife Hetty and their three children.
To Paulette
And have you taught the Quakers how to sing? Us Quakers, who for more than twelve-score years Have stilled our voices and made deaf our ears To music, lest it hinder focussing Upon the Light within, life’s seed and spring. We were mistaken: you have stilled our fears, By...
Quaker folk dancing tour in Scotland
Scottish Friends have been asked to support an international Quaker dance organisation that will be touring in 2022.
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Elbit leaves Oldham after sustained campaign
Peace campaigners, including Quakers, are celebrating the news that Elbit Systems UK has sold part of its business in Oldham. Protestors claim that the Elbit Ferranti factory provides specialist military technologies for Israel’s fleet of combat drones.
Friends push for policing bill amendments
Friends were among those who gathered last week in one final push against the controversial policing bill.
Belated anniversary celebrations for Quaker care home
The Quaker-managed Bernhard Baron Cottage Homes is welcoming Local Meetings back to its grounds after celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary late last year. The centre near Eastbourne, Sussex reached its milestone birthday in October 2020, but, with residents divided into two self-contained ‘bubbles’ and no visitors allowed due to lockdown, it was...
New youth worker for Yorkshire
A new youth worker has been recruited for Quakers in Yorkshire.
Electric cars: Mic Morgan gets a jump start
‘Be patterns, be examples’ wrote George Fox. And thus it seems that destruction of the environment through the running of petrol cars, entailing the extraction of crude oil from the Arctic, is not a very good life choice.
Letters - 21 January 2022
Population growth Stevie Krayer (17 December 2021) speaks our mind about the need for a change of attitude in addressing the issue of population growth. There is clearly too much focus in medical practice on ‘extending life at all costs’. Retired geriatrician David Jarrett provides an authoritative and very readable analysis of...