Issue 28-02-2020
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‘I wonder if perhaps the problem lies in each of us having our own truth?’
Recent issues of the Friend have caused me to think long and hard about Truth, and about what Love requires (Meeting for Sufferings report, 14 February). Martin Schweiger’s letter (7 February) spoke to my condition. For many years I have attempted to follow the advice of Stephen Covey, author of The 7...
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‘We too groan in ourselves, eagerly waiting to live fully as daughters and sons of God.’
Tipping points are by their very nature difficult to feel and to perceive. We approach slowly, almost stealthily, until we feel something move beneath us. We advance gradually, passing the point until at last we see the new phenomenon or situation towards which we have been progressing.
‘The truth exists. It is alive and living within you.’
The prisoner stood with his hands bound in front of the governor. He was about thirty-five years old and of medium height. A small drop of blood dribbled out of his right nostril and fell onto the white marble floor. If anyone had noticed (and, of course, nobody did) the...
‘A bodged object might not look quite the way it would if it had been professionally repaired.’
Here’s a word I remembered recently: bodge. Bodging can be a problem, an approach, or a skill. The English word ‘to bodge’ has, as far as I’m aware, three uses. It can be used as: a short form of chair-bodgering (the skill of making chair legs and other...
Wassail
Oddling bee, take your bearings, quickener, burr and bless from bud to breaking brier. Caper through lamb’s tails, weave and waver
Collateral Damage poppies at Peace Museum
Two panels of the thousands of handmade poppies that made up the Collateral Damage project have been donated to The Peace Museum. Linda Murgatroyd, from the Quaker Arts Network, told the Friend: ‘The remainder have been distributed for use at protests against the arms trade or war, and in a...
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Funeral directors sign QSA pledge
Funeral directors across the UK have committed to providing transparent pricing by signing a pledge organised by Quaker Social Action (QSA). The Fair Funerals pledge was relaunched by QSA amid ongoing concerns at the scale of price rises and the behaviour of some funeral directors, with the Competition and Markets...
Quaker Universalist gathering
Thirty people gathered at Friends House, London, this month to consider the topic ‘Language, Truth and Religion’.
Council of Faith visits at Loughborough Meeting
Loughborough Quakers have started an interfaith initiative for their local Council of Faiths designed to bring members closer together.
Pontefract Friends host climate talk
Pontefract Meeting hosted a talk about climate change this month in a bid to raise awareness of the crisis. Andrew Rollinson, a renewable energy specialist, spoke on 9 February about the various pointers that indicate we are in a climate emergency.
Quaker lecturer to give talk to Jewish society
The Quaker theologian and Woodbrooke lecturer Benjamin Wood has been invited by the Leeds branch of the Jewish Historical Society of England to give a talk in 2021 about the relationship between Quakers and Jews.
Eye - 28 February 2020
Modern… quiet… freedom… inspiration… eagle-eyed readers have spotted Friends popping up in the leaves of a number of books, newspapers and magazines in recent months. As Young Friends General Meeting (YFGM) prepared to gather in York last weekend, the i newspaper featured the voices of Young Friends. Jak Hutchcraft, in...
Letters - 28 February 2020
Resources are limited In theory, zero emissions can be achieved by existing technology. But this is clearly not happening fast enough. Even if zero emissions are achieved, does this mean that normal service – in other words unrestrained growth driven by capitalism – can continue? Growth of what? ‘Stuff’? Apart from a...