Issue 15-02-2013
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Thought for the Week: Not in our name
On 15 February 2003 millions of people, across the world, marched in more than 600 cities. They had a simple demand: for George Bush and Tony Blair to call off their plans for an invasion of Iraq. Tens of thousands of Quakers took part.
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The season of Lent
So, what do modern Quakers think about Lent? George Fox would have known well that the church of those days recognised Lent as the prelude to Holy Week and Easter, and rejected the notion as being all about ‘times and seasons’, which did not fit with his view that Christianity...
Marching for peace – then and now
The diverse group with whom I traveled to London on 15 February 2003 got nowhere near Hyde Park and the speakers. This was due to the sheer numbers of people with their banners gently shuffling on their way. As well as those on the street, there seemed to be support from people...
How should we define ourselves?
Quaker: Christian who believes that all humanity is lighted with a divine spark or light from God and that one must conform to God’s will via this light. Quaker: A person that believes something divine or ‘other’ can be experienced directly within themselves regardless of theological beliefs, and...
Priory Rooms plug into future
Friends at Bull Street Meeting House in Birmingham are getting into gear for a low carbon future.
Anti-war campaigners win landmark case
Anti-war campaigners have just won a landmark case at the Central London County Court after ten years. In March 2003 approximately 159 protestors, including some Quakers, set out from Euston for the Fairford military aerodrome to protest against the war in Iraq. They were stopped by the police three miles from...
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Centenary celebrations
Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) marked the centenary of its formation with a party at the newly refurbished Manchester Meeting House on 2 February.
Meeting for Sufferings: Citizen’s Income
Friends were encouraged, in the Meeting for Sufferings held at Woodbrooke on 3 February, to take an interest in the subject of a Citizen’s Income.
Meeting for Sufferings: BYM 2013
Britain Yearly Meeting 2013 will, it was announced at Meeting for Sufferings, be held from 24 to 27 May at Friends House. Chris Skidmore, the nominated clerk, outlined the theme, which continues last year’s exploration of what it means to be a Quaker. ‘If there is a theme,’ he said, ‘it...
Meeting for Sufferings: An alternative view
Who are all these people who go to Sufferings? Are they all weighty Friends? Full of their own importance? What do they get up to? Are there questions you daren’t ask?
Meeting for Sufferings: Meeting for Worship
Like many people, I was initially attracted to Quakers by the peace testimony. In my case, it happened in the early 1990s, when the country was rushing into the first Gulf war. What has kept me among Friends, however, and has drawn me in deeper over the years is something...
Cause for concern
It may seem strange to review a slim paperback by a Quaker published forty-two years ago, but Herbert Dobbing, for nine years head of Brummana High School, was a far-sighted and reflective commentator, not only as a skilled summariser of the broader history of Palestine, but for his insights into...
In the labyrinth
In the labyrinth There are no wrong turns And no dead ends. Each step brings you on Inevitably, inexorably, Towards your destination
Eye - 15 February 2013
Hidden treasure The fledgling Ashburton Meeting hopes that it has found a nest from which to flourish. A former chapel, tucked down an alleyway in the centre of the town, caught a local Friend’s attention as an excellent potential Meeting house and has inspired a project that has not...
Letters - 15 February 2013
What is truth? In the Friend (8 February), Joy Croft, when introducing the first session of Meeting for Sufferings, said that in worship we connect with ‘the collective spirit, wider truth (my italics) and with God’. Then in the article on the National Outreach Conference, in the same issue, Paul Parker...