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Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 4
Hosted by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), the How schools can teach climate justice session opened with a poem by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner. Ellis Brooks, from QPSW’s peace education team, who led the session, said that the poem was a good example of an ‘uplifting voice’ in climate education,...
Friends ‘work creatively to heal our fractured world’
Eighty Friends came together last month to discuss ‘From Crisis to Connection: working creatively to heal our fractured world’.
Quakers to make reparation for slave trade and colonialism
Quakers will make practical reparations for the transatlantic slave trade, colonialism and economic exploitation.
WCC faces more pressure
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has faced renewed calls to distance itself from any members which support the invasion of Ukraine.
Quaker MP highlights health inequality
A Quaker MP has highlighted the issue of rising health inequality. Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Wood Green, said: ‘Over the past decade, we’ve seen the health gap between wealthy and deprived areas grow and life expectancy fall.’
Scottish Friends donate to Quaker-built Kenyan school
North Scotland Area Meeting has donated £500 towards a Quaker-built school on a Kenyan island.
Peace campaigner Paul Oestreicher awarded jubilee honour
The Quaker and Anglican peace campaigner Paul Oestreicher has been awarded an OBE in the jubilee birthday honours. The ninety-year-old priest and vice-president of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was recognised ‘for services to Peace, Human Rights and Reconciliation’.
Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 1
Before Yearly Meeting (YM) began in earnest, Friends joined various online sessions of preparation or special interest. After a time of technical practice for Zoom users, Woodbrooke ran Supporting online discernment: Centring down and upholding from home. More than fifty Friends joined as Woodbrooke tutor Rhiannon Grant offered help on...
Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 2
Over 100 Friends attended a session about the Quaker study centre in Birmingham, Woodbrooke’s future.
Yearly Meeting special interest sessions 3
The Groups Fair was a chance for Friends to meet members of various Quaker groups. Members of the Black, Brown and People of Colour Fellowship spoke of the group’s ability to nurture those who were otherwise feeling isolated in their Meetings. It was a safe space, a place for...