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Yearly Meeting 2023: Final session
‘Today is all about listening,’ Adwoa Burnley, Yearly Meeting (YM) clerk (pictured), told Friends gathered for the extra YM session on 1 July. ‘Listening to God, listening to each other, listening and being heard.’
Jamaican Christians talk reparations at Friends House
Jamaican church leaders visited Friends House last week to discuss reparations for the transatlantic slave trade with Quakers.
Friends stand for peace on Armed Forces Day
Quakers witnessed for peace last weekend as the annual Armed Forces Day (AFD) took place. Marketed as ‘family-friendly fun’, the day is really ‘a desperate recruitment drive with the 10,000+ annual military visits to schools and the increasing influence of arms company money in our education system’, said Lesley Chandler from...
Quaker-inspired artist on Turner Prize shortlist
Rory Pilgrim, an artist with Quaker links, has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2023.
New plaque for George Fox
A new plaque for George Fox was unveiled last week in Fenny Drayton, the Quaker founder’s birthplace.
Quakers mark Pride Month
Friends across the UK celebrated Pride Month this year by joining marches and holding talks. Helen Carter-Shaw, from Canterbury Meeting, told the Friend that people from the LGBTQ+ community, as well as ‘straight allies’, took part in the city’s Pride celebrations, where they ‘proudly marched with two specially-designed and...
New Yearly Meeting formed in Europe
The Central European Gathering (CEG) made history last month when it became a Yearly Meeting (YM). The decision was made at the twenty-sixth CEG in May in Gdansk, Poland.
Quakers ask peers to block legislation
Britain Yearly Meeting joined forty-eight organisations in calling on peers to reject ‘extreme and chilling’ government measures.
Quaker Truth and Integrity Award
The inaugural Quaker Truth and Integrity Award has been given to investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. The writer, who also won the Orwell Prize for political journalism, and was a finalist for a 2019 Pulitzer Prize, made headlines when she exposed the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal in The Observer.
Calls to stop military recruitment of children
Quakers have welcomed calls from United Nations (UN) child rights experts for the UK to stop recruiting children into the armed forces.