Issue 10-05-2024
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Save your breath: Gerard Guiton’s Thought for the Week
‘Salvation’ in biblical Greek is the word we use to translate from sótéria and eiréné. The former gave rise to theologies of fall and redemption, while the latter suggests oneness, peace, quietness and rest, four aspects intrinsic to wholeness and unity in Love – for me, salvation’s...
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Quakers on trial for arms witness
Four Friends are on trial this week for their witness at an arms fair in Telford.
Following the thread: Anne M Jones revisits her time in a Calais Jungle warehouse
I am not really a tailor, but this is a story about tailoring, of sorts, and mostly about the power of the human spirit.
Simply the best? Martyn Kelly’s letter from Chengdu
Daci Temple in downtown Chengdu neatly captures the paradoxes of modern China. It is a shrine for a religion whose adherents aspire to rise above materialism, but set within a shopping mall. Many of the worshippers carry bags advertising western brands. It is, however, an oasis of sorts, since the...
Illegal deposit
What’s the law on loitering? (with or without intent?) Does he commit offence, who summer, autumn, winter, spring, swings his soiled sleeping bag into a shop doorway and curls inside it in a drug-drenched sleep?
Should never be seen: Zoe Prosser looks at an insidious, but familiar, word
‘I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.’ So says Frodo, in The Lord of the Rings. I hear a lot from Friends who feel a bit like our fictional hobbit.
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BYM discusses arms exports to Israel at Westminster
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) joined a parliamentary discussion on suspending arms exports to Israel last week.
Fix finance for climate, say Friends
Quakers are calling for a major international financial overhaul to help tackle the climate emergency. This includes ‘debt cancellation, tax justice and shifting of finance flows needed to properly resource community-led climate solutions and just transitions’, said Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM).
QARN monitors Migrant Help strategy
Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network (QARN) has highlighted a new strategy launched by a Home Office-funded charity.
York Friends hold vigil for peace
York Quakers held a silent peace vigil last week in the middle of the city.
Playing God: Science, religion and the future of humanity, by Nick Spencer & Hannah Waite
Playing God begins with a walk in the park. The walk took place in Brussels in 1927; the walkers were Albert Einstein and the Belgian scientist Georges Lemaître. The pair discussed Lemaître’s discovery that the way galaxies move in the night sky could be explained if we accept...
Eye - 10 May 2024
Glimmers Eye has been so moved by Friends’ generosity with sharing their moments of love and light, and hopes you’ve found your spirits lifted in turn. Judith Niechcial, of Bromley Meeting, wrote to invite readers into a moment in her life. She writes: ‘In the 15 March edition of the...
Letters - 10 May 2024
Sadness and sympathies I have often found Tony D’Souza’s articles enlightening and inspiring and so I owe him thanks. However, I was perturbed after reading his article (5 April), which described soldier Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, in front of the Israeli embassy, as an act representing ‘the best in...