Issue 02-08-2013
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Thought for the Week: Economic apartheid
Recent studies have shown that there are an increasing number of areas where to buy or rent anywhere to live it is necessary to have an income far in excess of average earnings. Does this matter? I think it does. All settlements – villages, towns, cities – have different areas within...
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Cancer and love
I was diagnosed in the summer of 2011, quite unexpectedly, with an aggressive breast cancer. It was good timing, in that my husband and I had retired and recently returned from a once in a lifetime visit to New Zealand. It was bad timing in that one of our daughters had...
The Nayler Passion
‘There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end.’ These words of James Nayler are amongst the best loved in Quaker literature, and form the...
Quaker chaplains
There was no shortage of things to talk about for the twenty-four Quaker chaplains who attended the Woodbrooke Quaker chaplains’ weekend in June. The event brought together Friends with a wide range of experience of chaplaincy work. We were Quakers involved in higher and further education, prison and secure...
Ireland Yearly Meeting meets for first time in Cork
Ireland Yearly Meeting was held last week, for the first time ever, in the city of Cork. The event attracted Friends from all over Ireland and visitors also came from America, England, Scotland and several European countries to experience worship and fellowship.
Protest over Teutates Treaty
Christians active against the replacement of Trident crossed the English Channel this week to join forces with the French peace movement in Dijon. They have gone to support French peace activists who are protesting against the Centre de Recherche Nucleaire at Valduc. It is located just north of Dijon.
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We need a society… not an economy!
The dire effects of the present monetary system and its failure were recently pointed out by our Friend George Penaluna (‘Money is debt: a vicious circle’, 5 July). These pernicious consequences can be seen to stand even in terms of the conventionally accepted, if misguided, objective of restoring economic growth. ...
Violence against women
Do you not know that you are each an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age; the guilt must of necessity live too. You are the devil’s gateway; you are the unsealer of that forbidden tree; you are the first deserter of...
Summer thoughts
As I lay here dozing on the lawn, I can hear the sound of children, Their joyful shrieks of delight at scoring a goal, And the glee in their laughter as they begin to win the game. The sound of the trees gently swaying in the breeze, The sound of...
On being a grandpa
A lunchtime phone call told us we had crossed That Great Divide and become grandparents. ‘Joel!’, exclaimed Kay; so it was a boy. We were soon scurrying along the hospital corridors to see that which had come to pass, a tiny bundle guarded by his proud parents. Joel has since...
Sam Peel
It is exciting to come across a new book that tells a remarkable story of a Quaker life. Sam Peel: A man who did different is a biography written by his granddaughter, Susan Wild, and was recently published by the Wells Local History Group. Sam was born in Stapleford, Hertfordshire,...
Letters - 02 August 2013
Severn barrier Following Chris Walker’s timely urging of Friends to speak out on the energy issue last autumn (28 September 2012), it does seem, more than ever, necessary for the Religious Society of Friends (in cooperation with other concerned bodies) to assert the irrefutable necessity for effective alternative energy generation. The...