Quakers and the Tobin Tax
There has been comment in the Friend about a Tobin Tax, or Financial Transactions Tax (FTT). I offer the following based on some professional knowledge. To call the FTT a ‘Robin Hood tax’ is wrong: it is not about robbing the rich to give to the poor but about taxing...
Letters - 03 February 2012
Plain Friends In answer to Alan Russell’s question (6 January): ‘Plain Friends. What are they, please?’ May I offer the following information… The largest gathering of Plain Friends occurs in the mid-western state of Ohio, USA, where the last Yearly Meeting of Conservative and Plain Friends was held.
Quakers?
For the first fifty-seven years of my life, to my knowledge, I had never encountered a Quaker. Now I find they are everywhere. I almost feel as if I am being pursued!
Are we afraid to die?
We sat around a candle, eight of us, in a Friend’s home. I had been asked to run a ‘dying workshop’ by another Meeting. A special couple in my Meeting had just lost their very disabled fifty-year-old daughter. Real words of comfort were needed. We let our thoughts go...
Reaching Out: Publishing truth - Quaker Quest style
A quest is powered by questions. On a Quaker Quest these questions will be spiritual ones of profound significance to those who ask them. Seekers dare to cross the threshold of a Quaker Meeting house for the first time because something stronger than their apprehension impels them in the search...
Thought for the Week: Speak up, speak out!
First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist
Olympic opportunities
How do you respond to the idea of the 2012 Olympics in Britain? With excitement and anticipation, with resentment and doubt, or with indifference? In the midst of our often mundane and busy lives, the Olympic Games taking place in Britain this summer represents a tremendous opportunity: an opportunity for...
The White Book of Carmarthen
Quakers in west Wales are preparing for a historic visit – by a book. The White Book of Carmarthen, launched by Welsh pacifists, is touring Wales and is expected to be welcomed shortly at Carmarthen Meeting.
Christian unity experienced
Several Quaker Meetings have welcomed worshippers from local churches in celebration of the week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In a number of towns, united worship was held at a different place of worship on each day of the week, which ran from 18-25 January.
Swiss banks criticised
Friends in Geneva have strongly criticised Switzerland’s banking and financial systems. Geneva Monthly Meeting said that institutions in their city are responsible for ‘acute social and economic difficulties now experienced around the world’.