Issue 13-10-2023
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Simply the best: Paul Hodgkin’s Thought for the week
Advices and queries 41 tells us that ‘a simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength’. But what if it isn’t freely chosen? What happens as climate breakdown and habitat destruction enforce simplicity on us? What does a testimony to simplicity mean today?
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The life and soul of the party: Joyce Trotman celebrates the Windrush generation
Seventy five years ago – 21 June, 1948 – about a thousand passengers stepped off HMT Empire Windrush onto Tilbury Docks. The majority, 802 people, were from the Caribbean, most of those (539) from Jamaica specifically. They had come at the invitation of the British government to help in the regeneration of the country after the...
Take the pledge: Clark Seanor talks apologetics and inclusion in Britain Yearly Meeting
Apologetics are philosophical arguments made about why certain religious beliefs should or shouldn’t be held. I am not under the impression that these arguments make up a significant amount of our faith practice, so it feels strange to write an article about them. I am using the word ‘argument’...
Just right: Margaret Cook on a unique and historic Meeting
Jordans Meeting House in Buckinghamshire has been described by Simon Jenkins as ‘the Westminster Abbey of Quaker meeting houses’. Recently, a Meeting for Worship was held there that might add to its historical import.
Friends shine light on water pollution
Exeter and Exmouth Friends bore witness to the degradation of the UK’s rivers and seas this month in a silent vigil.
Eye - 13 October 2023
Calling all Quaker crafters! As readers of the Eye page will have spotted, this year we’ve been including more creative offerings. Eye hopes they’ve been speaking to you, Friends! Eye is now on the lookout for tips and ideas from those of you who enjoy transforming a humble...
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Quakers highlight Alternative Security Review
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has said it is looking at ways to share the outcome of the Alternative Security Review (ASR), a three-year project to create public dialogue in the UK on human and ecological security.
Rwanda plan risks PTSD for soldiers
Military personnel forced to assist with deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda risk post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or ‘moral injury’, a Quaker-linked military advice service has said.
Loving Earth comes to Friends House
A Quaker-led textile exhibition about the survival of the planet launched last week at Friends House.
Quiz for Prisons Week
Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) marked Prisons Week by sharing a quiz with Friends.
Meeting for Sufferings: Crynwyr Cymru/Quakers in Wales
Over 6-8 October, Meeting for Sufferings met at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, for a residential weekend. The Friend joined online, but heard from Friends who attended in-person that it ‘really was a joyful experience to be together for an extended time with all the opportunities for conversation and fellowship. It really...
Meeting for Sufferings: QLCC on membership
On Saturday morning Friends heard from a Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) group that has been considering how membership works in the Religious Society of Friends. Robert Card, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings, told the sixty-seven Friends in the room, with twenty online, that, almost a year ago, a discernment...
Meeting for Sufferings: BYM trustees
Paul Whitehouse, BYM treasurer, and Caroline Nursey, clerk to BYM trustees, spoke to their report, telling Friends about two trustees’ Meetings: one in June (at Woodbrooke) and one in September (online).
Letters - 13 October 2023
In person or online We have been through a lot in recent years and are still adapting to post pandemic life and practices as we develop how we hold our Meetings. Pre-pandemic we just met at wherever a Meeting was held. During the pandemic we just met online.Now we...