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Issue 28-05-10

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  • Roy Hattersley

    FREE 25 May 2010 | by The Friend

    Roy Hattersley | Guzelian

    You have chosen to talk in The Salter Lecture about the word ‘equality’. The word ‘fairness’ is more fashionable. Equality and fairness are not the same thing. During an election campaign I was once asked to stop saying ‘equality’ and say ‘fairness’. My reply was that everybody believes in fairness.…

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  • Silence and the Spirit

    FREE 25 May 2010 | by Trish Carn

    Britain Yearly Meeting 2008 before the session begins | Trish Carn

    The large room is full of people greeting old friends and chatting happily. There is no apparent signal. Suddenly the room falls silent with an expectant waiting. We’re at Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM). In a moment the door opens and the clerks enter. Most of you go to your Local…

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  • Worship

    25 May 2010 | by Curt Gardner
    Worship is not doing but being. Worship is resting in the presence of God. Worship is being so close to Him that we can almost hear His heartbeat.

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  • Looking out

    25 May 2010 | by Robert Daines

    Brighton Meeting House | Britain Quaker Meeting Houses/flickr

    Should Quakers be inward looking or should we be reaching out? At a community as well as a personal level we must be active. We have a booking at our Meeting House from an individual running a workshop on stillness for the general public. He offers to bring this into…

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  • Joseph Rowntree: prompted by faith

    25 May 2010 | by Janet E Rowntree

    Joseph Rowntree | Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

    All human beings are imperfect, despite the Biblical injunction: be ye perfect. This injunction is there to encourage us to strive relentlessly, but compassionately, towards the best qualities espoused by Christianity. We know that we will fall short, owing to human weakness, but we need to rise to that demanding…

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  • The Journal of Elias Hicks

    25 May 2010 | by Abigail Maxwell

    Elias Hicks | Friends House Library

    The Journal of Elias Hicks, editor Paul Buckley. Inner Light Books. ISBN 978 0 9797110 5 3. £18. Hicks is of great importance in Quaker history. After 1827 there was a significant rift in American Quakerism with neither side recognising the other. After this, other American Yearly Meetings split. The…

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  • Zimbabwean Quaker group appoints new director

    25 May 2010 | by Jez Smith
    Craig Barnett of Sheffield Central Meeting has been appointed as the new director of Hlekweni Friends Rural Service in Zimbabwe. He and his family will move to the rural training centre outside Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, later this year. Craig told The Friend: ‘I am inspired by the people who have kept…

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  • End of ‘cheap alcohol’?

    FREE 25 May 2010 | by The Friend
    Ministers look set to have the cautious backing of Quaker campaigners if they go ahead with plans to crack down on cheap alcohol. But Friends have also warned that the changes may not go far enough.

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  • Gay asylum seekers rarely granted refugee status

    25 May 2010 | by Symon Hill
    A damning investigation has found that asylum-seekers fleeing homophobic persecution are nearly all refused permission to live in the UK. The findings are contained in a new report, ‘No Going Back’, whose writers found that gay, lesbian and bisexual asylum-seekers are regularly deported to face abuse and torture in countries…

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  • New director at Woodbrooke

    25 May 2010 | by The Friend
    Friends visiting the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham will find a new director in place from the autumn. The Centre has announced the appointment of Sandra Berry to succeed Jennifer Barraclough, who is due to retire in November.

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  • Dying, death and dignity

    FREE 25 May 2010 | by Daphne Stedman
    When diagnosed with cancer, Claire Rayner spoke of the ‘tyranny of positive thinking’ – the expectation that when facing life-threatening illness we will refuse to consider the possibility of death until the very last moment. The ‘Quaker Concern on Death and Dying’ network, by contrast, encourages exploration of difficult questions…

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  • Q-Eye – 28 May 2010

    25 May 2010 | by Trish Carn
    Teddy Headley AFTER OUR APPEAL last week, we soon learned that a ‘Jack Hoyland bear’ (see photograph) has just been given to the library at Friends House. Donated by Bettina Headley, it belonged to her late husband John. She tells Eye that Young Friends at Yearly Meeting in 1936 or…

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  • Letters – 28 May 2010

    25 May 2010 | by The Friend
    Quaker Fellowship in Christ About twenty participants of the Christian Quaker Renewal Fellowship gathered at Woodbrooke for the annual May weekend. Most are active members of their local Quaker Meeting. It is a joy to attend as there is always a great sense of fellowship and support in the group.…

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