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Search for sustainable solutions
Staff at the Friend are investigating the most sustainable way of wrapping the magazine for posting to subscribers.
‘Silent’ podcast in the spotlight
A recording of a silent Quaker Meeting for Worship made by The Young Quaker Podcast has received widespread attention in the national press.
Hexham Debate on prisons
Friends from Hexham, Allendale and Stocksfield gathered last week to hear a talk on ‘Prison, prisoners, politics and power’, as part of the longstanding series of Hexham Debates. The event, on 21 April, which also attracted a large audience of non-Quakers, featured speaker Dan Gunn, a former prison governor for Barlinnie...
Experiment with Light Conference
Thirty Friends from all over Britain met in Glenthorne Quaker Centre and Guest House in Grasmere, Cumbria last month for the Experiment with Light Conference. Questions explored at the weekend gathering on 26 to 29 March included: ‘How might we be open to the leadings of the Light?’ and ‘How can we...
Quaker MP speaks out about Syria
The Quaker MP Catherine West spoke out on the BBC programme Daily Politics last week (16 April) about the recent government decision to launch missile strikes on Syria.
Gathering of the Northern Friends Peace Board
Eighteen Friends came together at Huddersfield Meeting House this month for a meeting of the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB).
Writer talks about his Quaker faith
The Quaker author Gregory Norminton, who recently published his first novel for ten years, has spoken out about how his Quakerism influences his writing.
More low-cost rented homes needed
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) has called on the government to build 78,000 low-cost rented homes a year to tackle the housing crisis.
Exhibition highlights fate of ‘missing’ persons
‘Fate Unknown: The Search for the Missing after the Holocaust’ an exhibition at The Wiener Library in Bloomsbury, London is highlighting the efforts made to trace the missing in the UK after the Holocaust, in which British Quakers played a big part.
Quakers speak out against military action in Syria
Friends House released a statement on 12 April urging the UK government not to take military action in Syria and to work for peace instead.