Issue 28-06-2024
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Thought for the Week: Paul Hunt is a man of the moment
In 1659, Thomas Ellwood met a group of old friends who, as was the custom of the time, greeted him with elaborate gestures and sentiments. He did not respond in kind, and this amazed them: ‘At length, the surgeon… clapping his hand in a familiar way upon my shoulder and smiling...
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Quaker spray paints Stonehenge for climate
A Quaker was one of two climate defenders who sprayed orange powder paint on Stonehenge on the eve of the summer solstice.
Same, difference: Rebecca Hardy catches Tania Mathias on the campaign trail
How do the Quaker testimonies and your Quaker faith inform your political work? I’ve had a lot of good help. Kingston was the first Meeting I went to, and the elders were really helpful. If you have difficult decisions, there’s respect for that, because I have had difficult...
Practical peacemaking: Anne Wade has more on the application of the Quaker method
When I left school I chose to do a combined training in general and psychiatric nursing. One night, just after I started, a woman was admitted to my ward in hysterics, saying that she would die before morning. The staff nurse and senior student nurse said there was nothing wrong...
Eye - 28 June 2024
Finding Fox in Fenny Drayton Rosemary Sturge, of Northamptonshire Area Meeting, reached out to tell Eye about a recent journey Friends undertook to mark an upcoming milestone. She writes that: ‘Northamptonshire Area Meeting Quakers like to plan a social activity in June, and this year decided to celebrate the 400th...
The Ethics of the Climate Crisis, by Robin Attfield
All Quakers, I think, have a concern about climate change, and here is the book you have been waiting for. It is a very readable account of the science involved, together with estimates of climatic effects on all living things, including humans, and an examination of the ethical and moral...
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BYM lobbies politicians in Refugee Week
Quakers have urged all political parties to draw up a ‘humane, co-ordinated response to those seeking refuge’.
Surge in global nuclear weapon spending
Britain Yearly Meeting’s peace and disarmament team has highlighted a new report showing a thirteen per cent surge in global spending on nuclear weapons.
Quakers host election hustings
Quakers are taking a collaborative approach this general election with Meeting houses hosting local hustings for other organisations. So far this includes Bournemouth, Boscombe, Brighton, Cardiff and Stevenage.
Friends journey to FWCC plenary
Quakers started on a two-and-a-half-month journey this week to the Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)’s World Plenary Meeting in South Africa.
General Meeting for Scotland: Kate Arnot & Alison Burnley report
Our Meeting was held on 8 June at Glasgow Meeting House. There were nineteen Friends in person and thirty-four on Zoom. The good news is that membership increased by five (two by convincement and three transfers in), but sadly there were also three deaths recorded.
Digital dignity: Richard Seebohm visits the Campion Lecture
Campion Hall is an Oxford college which, as a ‘permanent private hall’, is also a Jesuit institute. Last month I went to this year’s Campion Lecture there, on ‘Developing Human Dignity in the Digital Age’.
The shoes for college become the shoes for work
We’re in a rush, with errands here and there. The voice of Respect comes through the speaker, his first breath makes us think this is urgent. We tense: Rose without Thorns must concentrate is this Buses Only, or Low Emissions – are we in the right place, but wrong time?