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Quaker delivers prestigious sermon at Cambridge University
Janet Scott made the Quaker faith a major theme of the sermon which she delivered in Great St Mary’s, ‘the university church’, Cambridge, on Sunday 1 February. It is a prestigious honour to be invited to deliver the annual ‘University Sermon’ and Janet chose the subject ‘Education for Good News’...
York Friend comments on ordination
Barbara Windle, of York Area Meeting, spoke on Radio Five Live on 26 January about the ordination of the Church of England’s first woman bishop. Presenter Adrian Chiles asked Barbara for her thoughts, as a Quaker, on the ordination.
Pink scarf back to ‘Wrap Up Trident!’
The pink scarf knitted by Quakers and other peace campaigners last year made its final appearance on 24 January, as part of the ‘Wrap Up Trident!’ campaign. Quakers from across the country gathered in central London last Saturday to wrap the scarf around the Ministry of Defence. They were among some 10,000...
QUNO launches online consultation
The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) has launched an online consultation on food security. ‘Examining the linkages between trade and food security: What is your experience?’ invites contributors to share their knowledge and expertise. It aims to put small-scale farmers back at the centre of the food security debate. Contributors...
Leaveners appoint artist-in-residence
Quaker arts group the Leaveners has appointed its first artist-in-residence, Alex Goodman. The appointment is part of a pilot programme being run in partnership with Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham. Alex is a Cornwall-based artist, printmaker and producer. She arrived at Woodbrooke on 26 January for a two-week stay.
Friends embrace other faiths
Paul Parker, recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, recently took part in an interfaith event at the Islamic Cultural Centre at Regents Park Mosque in central London. Some twenty representatives of faith groups, including Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders, attended the event on 16 January. Organisers described it as ‘an act...
Leighton Park celebrates anniversary
Leighton Park School recently marked the 125th anniversary of its founding with a series of events.
Friends in fracking protest
Quakers were among hundreds of people taking part in an anti-fracking protest in London on 26 January. The ‘No Fracking Any-where’ protest was organised by Friends of the Earth and other organisations.
Friends mark Auschwitz anniversary
Quakers are among those marking Holocaust Memorial Day, and the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, on 27 January. The theme of Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 is ‘Keep the Memory Alive’. A key feature of the commemoration will be the telling of personal stories.
QHA dishes up 1,000 meals
Volunteers at the Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) Christmas Shelter served 1,103 hot meals over the festive season. The shelter, held annually in the Union Chapel in Islington, North London, was open from 3pm on 23 December to 10am on 30 December. Volunteers spent 22 December setting it up.