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It was terrific to hear so many Friends ‘call to action’ at Canterbury in support of a lower carbon economy; but I was disappointed at the apocalyptic approach of many Friends…
The proposals of the Review Group on Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) and Yearly Meeting (YM) Trustees were presented and accepted at Yearly Meeting Gathering. The most substantial of…
To all Friends everywhere: For JYM this year, 106 young people between the ages of sixteen and eighteen gathered for a sunny week in Canterbury from the 30 July to the 6…
New Shoots (0-2 year olds) We have done an on-going picture minute of all we have done together. We’ve enjoyed toys, walks, songs, sleeps and lots of paint and sticking.…
We send our loving greetings to all Friends everywhere. Friends from Britain, together with Friends from other countries, gathered in Canterbury, a city with a special…
It was uncomfortable. It was unsettling. It was wrong. And yet there was a sense that we all knew where it was coming from: from people who were all too human and felt…
When Nick Perks finished the introduction to the Friday morning Yearly Meeting (YM) session, I wept. The minute that followed makes a ‘strong corporate commitment’ to becoming…
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