Issue 26-07-2013
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Thought for the Week: Hard times
About two years ago I started keeping a journal. I began it at a time when I was starting to attend Quaker Meeting regularly and was also facing the prospect of early retirement, both of which events certainly played an important part in my feeling a need to do this....
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Beyond forgiving
South Africans Ginn Fourie and Letlapa Mphahlele form an unlikely team: a white Christian woman and a black atheist man. One has suffered directly from the actions of the other, but both have been victims – and risen beyond their pain. What brings them together is a profound story of tragedy...
Journey into life
Of all Christian traditions, Quakers are most committed to a mystical understanding of religion. They share this understanding with the Carthusians and Cistercians, and with the mystics of the Church. This explains why George Fox felt such affinity with the sixteenth-century Lutheran mystic Jakob Boehme. It is also why our...
Pilgrims arrive in London
The pilgrims involved in the 2013 UK Pilgrimage for Peace and Economic Justice finally arrived in London last weekend – sixty-two days after leaving Iona. The journey, which began in Iona off the west coast of Scotland on 19 May, had taken a small group of pilgrims from one end of Britain...
Declaration of the 2013 UK Pilgrimage for Peace and Economic Justice
Nuclear weapons are unique in their destructive power, in the unspeakable human suffering they cause, in the impossibility of controlling their effects in space and time, in the risks of escalation they create, and in the threat they pose to the environment, to future generations, and indeed to the survival...
Royal assent for same sex marriage bill
The change in the law that allows same sex couples in England and Wales to marry in Quaker Meetings has been welcomed by the recording clerk for Quakers in Britain. The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill received royal assent on Wednesday 17 July.
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Call for credit cost cap
The Association of Christian Financial Advisers (ACFA) is calling for a cap on the cost of credit. The call follows new research from R3, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals, which shows that people with payday loans are racking up overdrafts to pay them off.
Lover of souls
The love I bear to the souls of all men makes me willing to undergo whatever can be inflicted on me – Elizabeth Hooton Elizabeth Hooton’s words came to life for me on 21 June in Rugby Meeting House. Lynn Morris’s one woman show, Lover of Souls, opened with...
Travelling in ministry: Elders’ gifts and authority
One of my requests to Meetings that invited me to share about Spirit given gifts, was to gather on Friday evening with elders of the Meeting. It would be helpful for these Friends to give me an understanding of the concerns of their Meetings. There was no specific agenda except...
Eye - 26 July 2013
When you go a-walking 756 miles, countless blisters and touching acts of kindness. The 2013 UK Pilgrimage for Peace and Economic Justice has been an inspirational act of witness.
Letters - 26 July 2013
Mental health in Meetings I want to reply to the anonymous article on ‘Mental health in Meetings’ (12 July). Depressed people are their own worst enemies – I’m one myself, so I should know! Their outlook is compulsively negative and they don’t go in for ‘happy endings’. I’ve just...