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On the record: Paul Parker, interviewed by Joseph Jones
Perhaps we should start with where Quakerism begins for you, personally. I was a young teenager. I’d grown up in a household where one parent came from a non-conformist background and ran the Sunday school in the village chapel. The other was (and is) a fundamentalist atheist of the...
Friends bring light to Cambridge
Jesus Lane Meeting helped bring colour to the streets of Cambridge last month by taking part in a community project designed to reduce social isolation. Six members of the Children’s Meeting each created a design for ‘Window Wanderland Cambridge’, brightly displaying the words of Quaker Testimonies from the Meeting...
Quaker ‘Insulate Britain’ activist charges dropped
A Quaker Insulate Britain activist had his charges of contempt of court quashed last week when a judge decided that he had not broken the government’s M25 injunction last autumn.
Quakers take next steps for anti-nuclear ban
A Yorkshire Quaker organised a local event last month to mark the anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Launch of ‘Black Quaker Lives Matter’ film festival
Quakers in the US have welcomed a new ‘Black Quaker Lives Matter’ film festival this month, celebrating the lives and contributions of people of colour. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which co-sponsors the event, said that the festival aims ‘to educate all about the importance of Quakers of Colour...
Faith groups ‘at centre of Covid recovery’
Faith-based organisations will be ‘among the centrepieces’ of the country’s recovery from the pandemic, the government’s minister responsible for faith engagement, Kemi Badenoch, told a church summit last month.
‘Banniversary’ of anti-nuclear treaty
The government is facing renewed calls to engage with the UN’s multilateral Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) as one year passes since it was ratified.
‘One last push’ against Policing Bill
Quakers have outlined the next steps needed to oppose the Policing Bill. The bill met with several defeats last month when members of the House of Lords defeated almost all of the government’s last-minute attempts to change the legislation. Opposition peers also introduced some of their own improvements.
Quaker poster at Epping exhibition
Epping Quakers are contributing artwork to a new exhibition launched during InterFaith Week. The ‘Faiths in the Forest’ exhibition runs at Epping Forest District Museum until 14 February 2022.
1970s’ Sidcot ‘a hellhole’, says Justin Webb
The Radio 4 presenter Justin Webb has made a number of historical allegations about his time at the Quaker-founded Sidcot School. The BBC Today programme host told the Friend that, while he has heard that the Somerset school is a positive place now, when he boarded there in the 1970s from...