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Meeting for Sufferings: Ecocide
Some Area Meetings (AMs) have been calling for Quakers in Britain to support the campaign to make Ecocide an international crime. On Saturday evening, Mike Coote, co-clerk of Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC), gave a verbal report from the engagement group who had been responding to the...
Meeting for Sufferings: Memorandum of Understanding
Later, Friends heard about the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the organisations together comprising the Religious Society of Friends in Britain, which amounts to more than seventy charitable bodies.
Meeting for Sufferings: Sustainability
Caroline Howden spoke to the Sustainability Monitoring Group’s report, compiled with Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for BYM. ‘As Friends we need to balance how we engage with a changing approach to sustainability and climate change, and our approach to discernment and concerns,’ she said. ‘At times...
Quakers highlight Alternative Security Review
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) has said it is looking at ways to share the outcome of the Alternative Security Review (ASR), a three-year project to create public dialogue in the UK on human and ecological security.
Friends shine light on water pollution
Exeter and Exmouth Friends bore witness to the degradation of the UK’s rivers and seas this month in a silent vigil.
Rwanda plan risks PTSD for soldiers
Military personnel forced to assist with deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda risk post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or ‘moral injury’, a Quaker-linked military advice service has said.
Quiz for Prisons Week
Quakers in Criminal Justice (QICJ) marked Prisons Week by sharing a quiz with Friends.
Meeting for Sufferings: Crynwyr Cymru/Quakers in Wales
Over 6-8 October, Meeting for Sufferings met at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, for a residential weekend. The Friend joined online, but heard from Friends who attended in-person that it ‘really was a joyful experience to be together for an extended time with all the opportunities for conversation and fellowship. It really...
Meeting for Sufferings: QLCC on membership
On Saturday morning Friends heard from a Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) group that has been considering how membership works in the Religious Society of Friends. Robert Card, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings, told the sixty-seven Friends in the room, with twenty online, that, almost a year ago, a discernment...
Meeting for Sufferings: BYM trustees
Paul Whitehouse, BYM treasurer, and Caroline Nursey, clerk to BYM trustees, spoke to their report, telling Friends about two trustees’ Meetings: one in June (at Woodbrooke) and one in September (online).