Issue 04-11-2022
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Hear and now: Margaret Roy’s Thought for the Week
Living adventurously, as Quakers are encouraged to do, is often interpreted as being more activist – taking risks, and pushing out of the comfort zone. Being different. It tends to suggest that the ordinary is not good enough.
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In the mix: Duncan Wallace on hybrid Meetings
Quaker Meetings have held together our movement for over 400 years. During that time we have stood up against states, conscientiously objecting with such power and authority that we have helped turn history.
Beach of sanctuary: Dave Traxson and Rosemary Fox take a break
Wolverhampton Meeting is a Sanctuary Meeting, and has been arranging summer outings and holidays for local sanctuary seekers. We have access to a residential facility at Porthmadog, and were able to accommodate three groups for a short break. The guests were drawn from our City of Sanctuary drop-in centre, and...
Quaker school student held without charge
A student at a Quaker school in Palestine has been held without charge by Israeli military.
The deep end: Shane Whelehan on a closure in Northern Ireland
It is with sadness that the board of Quaker Service in Northern Ireland has decided to close the Family Programme at Quaker Cottage in Belfast. Opened in response to the sectarian violence fracturing the north and west of the city during the troubles, Quaker Cottage, high up on the Black...
Eye - 4 November 2022
The sunshine pages return! Eye is back Friends – it’s been a long time coming, but we’re hoping you’ve missed Eye as much as Eye has missed you! For Friends who have started subscribing since these canary-yellow pages last appeared, this may not make much sense. For you,...
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Quakers put priorities to new PM
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has written to Rishi Sunak, the new prime minister, urging him to focus on the climate, cost-of-living, peace, and truth.
QCEA urges release of political prisoners
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) has been participating in informal exchanges with Egyptian civil society and other organisations coordinating action around the UN climate summit COP27 in Egypt this month. The meetings have been held to learn how QCEA can ‘best support local claims and concerns around the summit’,...
Actor Mark Rylance backs white poppies
The Peace Pledge Union (PPU)’s white poppy campaign launched last week with the backing of Mark Rylance.
Ecocide is crime against peace, say Friends
Hampshire & Islands Area Meeting has decided that it will put forward to Meeting for Sufferings a concern that ecocide should become law and be made part of the Statute of Rome.
Learning curve: Robert Ashton meets a prison scholar
You could be forgiven for assuming that Jaidon is a fortunate, popular young man, with a bright future. Articulate and intelligent, with a promising career in banking, he had 700 guests at his wedding. But Jaidon grew up in a strict religious family, and felt compelled to keep secret the fact...
The Boy at the Back of the Class, by Onjali Q Rauf
I thought this was a really good book. It made me think a lot about refugees and how badly they are treated here in this country.
Games at dawn
Children are the throats of blackbirds easing laughter out of half-light. Dawn raises curtains and the play begins. Trains emerge from skirting-boards, dinosaurs bark circles on the rug, while an army racks the carpet with its tiny dead.
Letters - 04 November 2022
Holding up a mirror We like Tony D’Sousa’s suggestion in ‘Thought for the Week’ (21 October) that the impossible demands of the Sermon on the Mount can be approached only with the help of the grace of God. But we think he is wrong to say that the text...