Issue 11-06-10
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Workplace bullying – a hidden injustice
It is easy for most of us to feel a sense of injustice for people subjected to human rights abuses – people suffering abject poverty or living in war zones – but would it be as easy to feel the same sense of injustice for someone living closer to home,…
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Nuclear conference reaches agreement
A month-long United Nations conference to review progress on disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear weapons ended with agreement to move forward in a number of areas. A breakthrough came when states agreed to convene a conference in 2012 aimed at achieving a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction,…
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Sex and the Spirit
We arrived for ‘Sex and the Spirit’ weekend at Woodbrooke apprehensively. Would we be obliged to share aspects of our lives that we would rather remain private? Were we about to be sold a particular message with which we might not agree? Would the event be grounded in Quaker testimonies,…
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News in brief
Quaker House Belfast Meting for Worship A special Meeting for Worship to lay down and celebrate the work of Quaker House, Belfast, was held at Frederick Street Meeting House on Saturday 5 June. People associated with the project came from all over Britain and Ireland to worship and to share…
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Letters 11 June 2010
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The Pump
What is the background to the poem? The poem was triggered by a photo I took of the pump in the yard at Bridport Meeting House. However, the poem isn’t particularly about Bridport: it’s some imagined location with a pump like that. There have been other pumps I’ve known, such…
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Quaker etiquette: a rough guide
This last Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), held in London 28 to 31 May, (in case you’ve been out of touch for awhile) was my first. It was probably the most momentous Quaker occasion I have attended. Ireland Yearly Meeting, my old stomping ground, is a much smaller, albeit perfectly formed,… -
Hurt Feelings
I was shopping in Tesco’s for some strawberry jam, Some wafer-thin ham, standing by the Spam, When up behind me comes security Over my shoulder, looking straight at me. -
Q-Eye – 11 June 2010
Every day a school day Penn House, a building owned by Bootham School, is to feature in BBC film on unemployment planned for broadcast this summer. The building was donated to the school in 1920 by Joseph Rowntree and was then named Penn House. It was from this address that… -
An opinion from Screwtape
My dear Wormwood In recent years, we have made excellent progress weakening the Quakers, with the number of members dropping on average about 800 every four years. Although many people have vaguely heard of the Friends, nearly half of those have no idea whether they are a humanitarian organisation involved…
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