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Exeter Quakers celebrate diversity
Exeter Quakers took part in the city’s weekend-long Respect Festival, designed to promote peace and tolerance. Friends hosted a tent and two days of Meeting for Worship. Despite ‘limited interest’, there were ‘moving conversations’, said Bob Lovett from Exeter Meeting, showing ‘there is spiritual hunger out there’.
Bristol peace lecture inspires anti-racism poetry
The Quaker who delivered this year’s annual Bristol Peace Lecture has released a video of poetry and music based on her performance.
Meeting for Sufferings: Truth, Integrity and Democracy
The first main item on the agenda arose from a conference of the recently-formed Quaker Truth and Integrity Group in April, which issued ‘A Rallying Call for Quakers’ in its final statement.
Meeting for Sufferings: Speaking out
The Friends House Communications team then gave a presentation on its ‘Speaking out’ work.
Quakers oppose repeal of Human Rights Act
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has said that it will oppose new legislation to repeal the current Human Rights Act – on the grounds that it would weaken human rights for everyone in the UK.
‘This should concern us all,’ says AFSC
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has spoken out against the US supreme court’s overturning of the landmark Roe v Wade ruling which made abortion legal in the US in 1973. Saying that the new ruling ‘should concern us all’, the AFSC put out a statement declaring that it ‘unequivocally...
Quaker values for new cohousing in Cornwall
A Quaker specialist in community living is helping to set up a new cohousing project in Cornwall based on Quaker testimonies.
Brigflatts Meeting honours 1652 ‘great gathering’
Brigflatts Meeting held an open air Meeting for Worship (pictured) on Firbank Fell to honour the birth of Quakerism.
Quaker handshake new logo for peace charity
Quaker Henry Hodgkin is reflected in the new logo of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FoR) (England and Scotland), a Christian movement for peace that he founded in 1914.
Friends host black history walk
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) staff from its BAME network hosted a specially commissioned walk last week exploring Quaker and black history in the streets surrounding Friends House.