Issue 11-11-2022
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One to remember: Tony D’Souza’s Thought for the Week
Remembrance Sunday will be observed all over the UK in some form this week. It commemorates the moment the guns fell silent in 1918. The ‘great war’ was supposed to be ‘the war to end all wars’.
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Quakers highlight loss and damage at COP27
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has been working with the Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) on a paper on loss and damage for the COP27 climate talks, which started on Sunday. The paper outlines several possible sources of funding for countries affected by climate breakdown. According to Olivia Hanks, climate justice...
Core studies: Fred Ashmore hears London Friends begin to address reparations
It seems a long time since Yearly Meeting (YM) in May. There all Meetings were asked to consider the minutes seriously. London Quakers didn’t get round to running an event to talk about what came out of YM22 until the end of October. But it was worth waiting a...
After last week’s letter from 2037 about selling Meeting houses, Keith Braithwaite has one from 2052
There is a road near my parents’ care home called Meetinghouse Lane. They can’t remember whether or not there ever was a Meeting house. Maybe it’s become one of those meaningless names that developers use, like having The Avenue with no trees. I haven’t thought about Meeting...
An atheist’s creed
Wisdom (and folly) through waiting, fearlessly passive1; naked flame’s humility; self-transformation in apostrophic mode, HaShem2; divine non-entity jealous of all humanity; powerless Nazarene’s failure breeding courage; (spontaneous-creative fullness of being3); positive incapability; abiding holiness of place; the inclusion of time in timelessness, (and at the point of death);...
Hitting home: Maggie Allder on a Winchester project
When Winchester Friends bought a beautiful old building to serve as their Meeting house in 1974, it was with two purposes in mind: to house vulnerable people, and a place for Quakers to meet. The house still serves both purposes today. As well as a small flat for a warden, we...
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Quakers open ‘warm banks’ as costs rise
Quakers are offering Meeting houses as warm spaces, as the cost-of-living crisis bites.
Friends join march to Downing Street over cost-of-living crisis
Friends were among those who marched to Downing Street last month to take a stand against the climate emergency and cost-of-living crisis.
Exeter Friends talk peace and reparations
Exeter Quakers invited Religious Education teachers from across Devon for a training session last month.
Quakers in dialogue with parliamentarians
Quakers were among churches who visited the UK parliament this month to discuss bringing about positive change.
Friends and Comrades: How Quakers helped Russians survive famine and epidemic, by Sergei Nikitin
A century ago, British and US Quakers were amid the turmoil of the revolution in Russia, providing help to starving people. Today there is again strife and war in Europe. Sergei Nikitin’s book, translated by Suzanne Eades-Roberts, comes at a useful time.
Letters - 11 November 2022
Pressures in speaking out Working with Palestine and for justice for its people is a difficult and taxing path to choose. Many within Quakers, along with ourselves, have been led to this work through a diversity of experience and insights given to us by others. We are twinned with a...
Eye - 11 November 2022
An invitation These ‘greatest hits’ are here to give you a flavour of what Eye has been (see 4 November), and to inspire you, our lovely readers, to reach out with stories and pictures you’d like to share in future editions. Let’s get to know each other in the...