Issue 22-03-2024
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Share alike: Nicky Hardy’s Thought for the week
I’m a Catholic deputy head in a Quaker independent school, and the chair of governors at a Catholic secondary. These roles present me with unique opportunities to integrate elements of both faith traditions. I can serve as a conciliator between them, fostering connections and partnerships.
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Home delivery: Sarah Barrett on Brummana High School in Lebanon
In the late nineteenth century, US and then British Quakers supported the founding of two Quaker schools in the Middle East. These continue to thrive today, despite regional turmoil and instability.
Peer review: Jane Harries attends some Quakerly teacher training in Cardiff
During Meeting for Worship at Bridgend Meeting one Sunday, Friends shared feelings of incredulity and despair at the content and tone of recent news bulletins. Escalating conflict in the Middle East, stalemate in Russia’s war against Ukraine, a rhetoric of fear and retaliation – these all leave us with the...
Gift of time: Stephen Moore on Friends’ School Lisburn
Friends’ School Lisburn is one of two Quaker schools on the island of Ireland, and the only one in the North. At the time of its foundation in 1774, Ulster Friends played a prominent role in society, not least in the thriving linen industry on which the town’s prosperity was...
Human resource: Isabel Cartwright on Teach Peace Secondary
Teach Peace Secondary is a new education resource published by Britain Yearly Meeting, featuring lessons from across the Peace Education Network. A sequel to the award-winning pack for primary schools, it is an example of the breadth of peace education in Britain today.
Eye - 22 March 2024
A peaceful path Peterborough Meeting’s garden has grown to be a gift for a whole community, after one Friend’s vision of the testimonies in flora. Linda Elliot is one of the gardeners who developed the garden and shared the story with Eye. She sets the scene: ‘Early in 2010,...
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Insurer drops pipeline after climate witness
A week of climate action targeting insurance companies and attended by many Quakers is already having an effect, campaigners have said.
QSA flags Cost of Dying report
The cost of a funeral has risen by a greater percentage than house prices in the last twenty years, Quaker Social Action (QSA) has highlighted.
BYM becomes Voter Registration Ambassador
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has signed up to become a Voter Registration Ambassador. The commitment includes launching a new general election webpage to coincide with Voter Registration Week.
Quaker Arts Network highlight performance witness
Friends gathered to discuss ‘performance as witness’ this month. Linda Murgatroyd, clerk of the Quaker Arts Network (QAN), which organised the event, told the Friend that the idea occurred to her when she learned that a number of the initiators of Climate Choir were Quakers. ‘The movement has grown very...
BYM condemns anti-extremism proposals
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has written to the prime minister to warn of ‘the chilling effect’ on the right to protest, due to new legislation and policing powers. Signed by forty-five other groups, the letter said that possible new anti-extremism measures, including barring MPs engaging with certain groups, represent an...
Letters - 22 March 2024
Meeting for Sufferings As a Religious Society we are constantly faced by the tension between the pressures of living with the demands of the secular world, and our evolving religious heritage and vision. This tension is creative but it must be held in balance. In recent years, the pressures of...