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Joy to the world: Priscilla Alderson on how to protect children from mental distress
‘Quaker silence helps them to care for their inner and outer worlds.’ -
Blue plaque for Hilda Cashmore
Described by the Bristol Civic Society as ‘a remarkable feminist and social reformer’, Hilda Cashmore helped found the ‘university settlement’, where the poor could access a range of services. -
Thought for the week: Abigail Maxwell hopes so
‘Hope has always required faith.’ -
Retreat and go on: Bob Johnson on William Tuke
‘Those Parkhurst prisoners taught me that we are all born lovable, sociable and nonviolent.’
News: a Quaker perspective
Blue plaque for Hilda Cashmore
QCEA highlights climate breakdown and militarism
Friends criticise immigration bill
Quakers lobby Labour Party on democracy and justice
BYM Quaker speaks about pacifism on BBC radio
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This week Highlights
Issue 30-March-2023
Thought for the week: Abigail Maxwell hopes so
‘Hope has always required faith.’
Joy to the world: Priscilla Alderson on how to protect children from mental distress
‘Quaker silence helps them to...
QCEA highlights climate breakdown and militarism
‘This report is a clarion...
Blue plaque for Hilda Cashmore
Described by the Bristol Civic...
Featured content
Rub of the green: Rebecca Hardy talks to co-leader of the Green Party, Carla Denyer
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Making waves: Tim Gee visits Friends bordering Russia and Ukraine
Old Rage, by Sheila Hancock
Epistle from Senior Conference, a gathering of Friends aged fifteen to eighteen
‘I don’t have to put an act on when I meet up with other Quakers; I can truly be myself.'
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