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Remembrance Day lecture
Alastair McIntosh, the Quaker campaigner and author, is to give the Movement for the Abolition of War (MAW) annual lecture at the Imperial War Museum on Sunday 10 November.
Rainbows within rainbows
The theme for the most recent gathering of the Quaker Lesbian Group, held at Leicester Friends Meeting House in late September, was ‘Rainbows within Rainbows’. It was explored in workshops, group exercises and conversations.
Faith groups take Lobbying Bill fight to the Lords
Quakers are working with other faith groups to oppose the Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill (known as the ‘Lobbying Bill’) as it moves to the House of Lords. Critics fear the Bill will prevent charities from campaigning on issues of public concern, particularly in the...
Witness or whitewash?
Friends House is to host an open panel debate on 17 October about ‘Church Investment: witness or whitewash?’ during National Ethical Investment Week, which runs from 13 to 19 October. The debate will explore whether the churches invest in a way that fully reflects their Christian message. It will discuss examples of...
Call for decisive action on corruption
Organisations and partners representing millions of people across the globe have issued an open letter challenging the world’s governments, financial institutions and church leaders to act decisively on corruption. EXPOSED, the global call to action against corruption in all its forms, has issued the letter in the run...
Banbury hosts sustainability forum
Banbury Meeting’s second annual sustainability forum has been hailed as a great success. The clerk to Banbury Meeting, Judith Mason, said the forum was attended by over a hundred people, including Tony Baldry, MP for Banbury. She continued: ‘It went extremely well. It was good to have a...
New Peace Trail
The statue of Quaker Joseph Sturge (1793-1859) in Birmingham is included in the newly launched City Centre Peace Trail. The trail is one of a number of Peace Trails being established in British cities. The public monument of Joseph Sturge, which was unveiled just three years after his death in 1862,...
Outreach in Wimborne
The new Quaker Meeting in Wimborne, Dorset, celebrated another ‘first’ during Quaker Week when it mounted an exhibition displaying the Quaker Homeless Action mobile library.
Meeting for Sufferings: Call for fossil fuel disinvestment
Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) has encouraged Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees to give up BYM’s investment in fossil fuels. The recommendation reflected a groundswell of conviction that investment in fossil fuel extraction is incompatible with the 2011 Quaker commitment to become a low-carbon community.
Meeting for Sufferings: Friends develop dialogue
The decision made in April 2011 to boycott goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied territories continues to prompt challenging questions for Friends in Britain, Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) heard on Saturday 5 October. Quakers in Britain were asked, earlier this year, to recommit to ‘developing dialogue and understanding with Jewish...