Issue 11-08-2017
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Thought for the Week: Epistle
To Friends everywhere ‘For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.’ [James 2:26] We send loving greetings from Britain Yearly Meeting gathered in community.
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Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Heart, Head, Hands and Feet
The theme of Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) – ‘Living out our faith in the word: Working with others to make a difference’ – was the culmination of a three-year consideration of what it means to live out our testimony, and the role of discernment in knowing what is ours to do.
Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: The main sessions
During the Yearly Meeting at the University of Warwick between 29 July and 5 August Friends dealt with an enormous number of items of routine business, including various nominations, and the business sessions were ably dealt with by the clerking team of Deborah Rowlands, clerk, and assistant clerks Clare Scott Booth and...
Our goal
At the recent Yearly Meeting Gathering participants were given a daily journal for their notes. At the top of each page were a few questions on the particular theme of each day. As often happens, some spoke to me more than others, and some spoke to me because of the...
The Salter Lecture: Conscience in the political life
There are positive things we can look forward to, Molly Scott Cato, Quaker and Green MEP, assured her audience at the 2017 Salter Lecture, ‘Brexit, Chilcot and the Role of Conscience in the Political Life’, which was delivered on Wednesday evening at Yearly Meeting, but ‘something is rotten in the public...
The George Gorman Lecture: Movement building from stillness
If the Spirit is in every person then the Quaker community is, by definition, open to all. In the George Gorman Lecture, held on Tuesday 1 August, Tim Gee explored themes such as power, diversity, and the spiritual root of action.
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Yearly Meeting Gathering news
Bear witness with white poppies Friends wishing to show their opposition to the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in London this September can to do so even if they are unable to bear witness in person. They can make white poppies between five and ten centimetres across...
Junior Yearly Meeting: Epistle
To All Friends Everywhere From the 29 July to the 4 August 2017, participants from across Britain and Europe joined Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG), hosted at the University of Warwick in Coventry. With a group of sixty young Friends, we explored the theme ‘How can we work with...
Letters - 11 August 2017
Woodbrooke I’ve been reading with interest the letters regarding the rebranding of the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, as I’m experiencing a similar process in my workplace. In both cases, a longer name is being shortened to a shorter, more snappy one, leaving the old, longer name still there,...