Issue 20-05-2022
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Room for improvement: Kate McNally’s Thought for the Week
The controversy around renaming the William Penn room at Friends House has produced many arguments. One of the common ones is that we are rewriting history. But there are no new historical facts here. We have always known that William Penn was an enslaver. The only new fact is that...
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The quest is silence: Mark Oakley talks to Judi Dench
Do you enjoy giving interviews? It depends. I don’t mind it like this, because we’re relaxed. I’m full of cold at the moment – which is very rare for me, because Daddy was a family doctor and the boys and I never had colds when we were children...
Creeping authoritarianism: Grace Da Costa makes the case for resistance
Is it still overdramatic to say that we are sleepwalking into authoritarianism? That we are heading for a state where the government has all the power; where individuals, civil society, and other institutions are powerless to bring about change?
Hitchin Friends reveal peace sculpture
A stainless steel sculpture called Unity was installed in Hitchin Meeting’s peace garden last month.
Quakers speak out on cost-of-living crisis
Quaker Social Action (QSA) has launched an appeal aimed at helping people in the cost-of-living crisis.
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Living Witness hosts climate gathering
The Quaker charitable trust Living Witness has organised a summer gathering aimed at unifying action on the climate crisis. The ‘All Change! Making paths on shifting ground’ event started as an idea when Friends identified a need to come together and unify their thinking on the crisis in an area...
Put peace at the heart of education, say Friends
A new report from Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) shines a light on how peace education in schools can tackle problems ranging from mental health challenges to violence.
Quaker on prison remand for breaking injunction
A Quaker has been imprisoned on remand for breaking a protest injunction.
Letters - 19 May 2022
Who we are In response to the letter from Peter Moss of 6 May asking ‘Who is this BYM?’ (Britain Yearly Meeting). Quaker testimonies bear witness to our religious convictions, and as a faith body The Society of Friends has long been called to speak out on particular issues. This is...