Issue 30 April 2010
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Q-Eye – 30 April
All I did was open the door Little did I know, when I took this job on in September 2004, that it would turn into such an unruly companion in my life. The job description was modest enough – bring the publication out every week and publish articles of interest…
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Towards mutual affirmation
An introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations by Edward Kessler. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978 0521705622. £17.99. That the seeds of the Holocaust are to be found in the pages of the New Testament is perhaps the starkest and harshest summary of the troubled historical relationship between Jews and Christians. Yet even…
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Gathering at Ashgrove
‘WITNESS to the exercise this 19th day of August 2000 of the right of way for Quakers along the trackway leading to the Burial Ground at Ashgrove in the Parish of Donhead St Mary in the County of Wilts’
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Setting the spirit free
My Quakerism stands on two legs. The first is the mystery that each person has direct, unmediated, constant access to God (George Fox, Quaker faith & practice 19.02). So I must treat everyone with equal respect, recognising their different characters. Everyone can search for truth and guidance for themselves and… -
Letters – 30 April
Words Quakers are using too many words Less ego Less fear More faith More spirit led More being what we believe Amanda Wheatley Christ on the cover Mary Jo Clogg and others (23 April) ‘following, as best we can, the teachings of Jesus, rather than being distracted by the stories… -
Junior Yearly Meeting 2010 epistle and reflections
Junior Yearly Meeting held at the Pioneer Centre, Cleobury Mortimer 10th – 13th April 2010 To all Friends everywhere JYM 2010 was held in the Pioneer Centre near Kidderminster and for 4 days was home to over 160 Quakers from across the UK and from overseas. Our theme for the…
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You can choose your own ingredients
Take one family willing to make their private home open for public Meeting for Worship. Add a warm welcoming atmosphere, with a meal provided by the family with help from the worshipping community after the monthly public Meeting for Worship. Find one convenor, willing to make sure that the worship… -
The pressure of forming a Local Meeting
At Yearly Meeting 2007 it was agreed to replace the three categories of Local Meetings by a single category. In other words, ‘Notified’ or ‘Recognised’ Meetings would be phased out and all would be called Local Meetings. This simplification seemed sensible, but it would be interesting to discover whether the… -
From painful origins new writing brings hope
The Galloping Stone. ISBN 978 0955882968. £5. Available from www.newwritingnorth.com/shop/shop.php. The result of Gillian Allnutt’s six months as writer in residence for the North East centre of The Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims of Torture, this book is varied and interesting in format. The clients’ – victims’… -
Nuclear weapons fire up candidates ahead of general election
Nuclear weapons have become a top election issue following a series of attacks on the resurgent Liberal Democrats’ policy on the Trident nuclear weapons system. The party’s leader Nick Clegg has been criticised by the Labour and Conservative leaders for opposing a ‘like-for-like’ Trident. At the same time, he has… -
Ex-offenders win right to review of life on sex offenders register
Campaigners have welcomed a Supreme Court judgment declaring that individuals should not be kept on the Sex Offenders Register for life without the possibility of review. The ruling follows a case brought by two convicted sex offenders, one of whom was only eleven when he raped another child. Until now,… -
Book Trust survives as Sessions of York collapses into administration
Sessions of York went into administration last week, but book publishing and printing by the Sessions Book Trust will not be affected as it is a separate charity and not part of the stricken company. The label printing company, which had a turnover of approximately £6 million per year and… -
‘No nuclear weapons at all’ still an option says Lib Dem Simon Hughes
Senior Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes has said that his party may choose to decommission all the UK government’s nuclear weapons if they take power. His comments display a different emphasis to party leader Nick Clegg’s focus on replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system with a cheaper set of nuclear… -
Absent without leave soldier loses appeal
Joe Glenton, a soldier who was sentenced to nine months imprisonment in March for going absent without leave after refusing to return to fight in Afghanistan, lost his appeal against his sentence in the high court in London today.
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