Issue 11-02-2022
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Thought for the Week: Bob Lovett comes to Light
Jesus said, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life’. This was central to Fox’s understanding of direct communion with God, and of the Truth and insight that such communion would reveal about the world...
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On the record: Paul Parker, interviewed by Joseph Jones
Perhaps we should start with where Quakerism begins for you, personally. I was a young teenager. I’d grown up in a household where one parent came from a non-conformist background and ran the Sunday school in the village chapel. The other was (and is) a fundamentalist atheist of the...
Friends bring light to Cambridge
Jesus Lane Meeting helped bring colour to the streets of Cambridge last month by taking part in a community project designed to reduce social isolation. Six members of the Children’s Meeting each created a design for ‘Window Wanderland Cambridge’, brightly displaying the words of Quaker Testimonies from the Meeting...
What’s in a name? Abigail Maxwell on what we call ‘God’
If there is an Eternal Creator, then I experience it. If humans are evolved animals in a material universe, there is something in us which Quakers have called God. We experience it as powerful and apparently alien in moments of Convincement, and as producing something new and valuable in ministry....
Love in a time of webcam and masks
Mourners have swum in underneath me, me from hundreds of miles away and no need to brave Waverley and Piccadilly for the sake of our goodbyes.
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Quaker ‘Insulate Britain’ activist charges dropped
A Quaker Insulate Britain activist had his charges of contempt of court quashed last week when a judge decided that he had not broken the government’s M25 injunction last autumn.
Quakers take next steps for anti-nuclear ban
A Yorkshire Quaker organised a local event last month to mark the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Launch of ‘Black Quaker Lives Matter’ film festival
Quakers in the US have welcomed a new ‘Black Quaker Lives Matter’ film festival this month, celebrating the lives and contributions of people of colour. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which co-sponsors the event, said that the festival aims ‘to educate all about the importance of Quakers of Colour...
Faith groups ‘at centre of Covid recovery’
Faith-based organisations will be ‘among the centrepieces’ of the country’s recovery from the pandemic, the government’s minister responsible for faith engagement, Kemi Badenoch, told a church summit last month.
Letters - 11 February 2022
Citizens and connection I share Rob Paton’s interest in the Citizens Climate Lobby (7 January). Citizens UK is a grassroots movement that works by building connections between people with power and those who are regarded as powerless. The idea of connecting people is key. The central ethos of Citizens UK...