Issue 10-05-2013
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Thought for the Week: The hallowed and the holy
Recently, a Friend quoted in Meeting words by the Austrian-born Israeli-Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, writing as God: You think I am far away from you; but in your love for your neighbour you will find me; not in his love for you but in yours for him. Everything...
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The ebb and flow of diversity
Respect the wide diversity among us in our lives and relationships. Refrain from making prejudiced judgements about the life journeys of others. Do you foster the spirit of mutual understanding and forgiveness which our discipleship asks of us? Remember each one of us is unique, precious, a child of God....
The China Convoy: What was the right thing to do?
It may seem curious that having been through the processes of establishing one’s registration as a conscientious objector (CO) and in so doing having endured varying degrees of hostility, a number of FAU members subsequently resigned and joined the armed services. How could these profound convictions, the recognition of...
Syria found
The Arab League has nailed its colours to the mast but Russia and China have vetoed UN resolutions
‘Ground the drones’ march
Friends from East Cheshire, Bolton and Chester took part in the Ground the Drones march held on Saturday 27 April at RAF Waddington.
Award for Coventry Quaker
A Coventry Quaker has been given an award for her services to the community. Anne Burkett, the Quaker representative in the Coventry Inter Faith Network, recently received an invitation, together with other members of Coventry Meeting, to attend the one hundredth anniversary celebration of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association.
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Campaign for Elizabeth Fry
A campaign to keep Quaker social reformer Elizabeth Fry on the £5 bank note is gaining momentum.
Pilgrimage gains Rowntree grant
The Pilgrimage for Peace and Economic Justice has been given a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. The pilgrimage, which is modelled on the Olympic torch relay through Britain in 2012, is organised by Hexham Quakers and sets off from Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, on 19 May.
Speaking our truth
Some ninety Friends, from seventeen Local Meetings across central southern England, gathered on 27 April, in Bournemouth, to hear Geoffrey Durham speak.
Christian Aid Week highlights hunger
This year Christian Aid Week will be urging the British public to ‘bite back at hunger’. Christian Aid Week runs between 12-18 May and will highlight the problem of hunger in the world today. It will ask why, in a world where there is enough food for everyone, one...
Seeking truth
Interviewers on radio and television seek to bring the truth of a situation to the listener/viewer. I am unhappy that the style of doing so adopted by many of them makes it more difficult for me to establish where truth lies.
I have a dream
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then you shall truly dance. ‘On death’ – from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Living our discernment
In A Small Share in History: A Quaker initiative in Eastern Europe Diana and John Lampen describe a Quaker initiative – visiting Belarus and Ukraine between 1991 and 2004 (at the time these countries were emerging from the Soviet Union) – sharing methods of creative conflict handling in schools and inter-active classroom approaches; and...
Eye - 10 May 2013
Daffodil ministry Spring has certainly sprung, if this photo is any indication. Martin Williams, warden of Llandrindod and Pales Meeting, sent it in with the caption ‘Pales burial ground rises late to give daffodil ministry’. He writes: ‘It is tradition round here to have daffodils for St David’s Day, 1...
Letters - 10 May 2013
The ‘Good Economy’ I much appreciated David Cadman’s article in the Friends Quarterly (May 2013), in which he writes about what he terms the ‘good economy’. He is expecting this to replace the ‘old and false economy’ which he feels belongs to a previous age. The suggestion brought to my...