Issue 25-01-2013
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Thought for the Week: Be like a child
Over a year ago I watched, fascinated, new-born Aidan and his grandmother getting to know each other; without language, copying each other, looking into each others’ eyes and laughing together.
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A Quaker bank
You may be surprised to find we are forming a Quaker bank. We are the Quakers & Business Group (Q&B), a registered charity and a listed informal group within Britain Yearly Meeting. We’ve been working on the bank for two years.
Reflections from experience
In 2009 Britain Yearly Meeting decided to press for equality in marriage, including the introduction of Quaker same sex marriage. For the first time, it became open to lesbian and gay Friends to marry as Quakers, in a marriage that would have equal standing with heterosexual marriage, within the Religious Society...
‘Resettlement’ in the East
On 27 January 1945 advancing Russian troops liberated the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland. 27 January has become Holocaust Memorial Day when we remember ‘the final solution to the Jewish question’. At the time it was cynically promoted as ‘resettlement’ in the East.
War tax paid under protest
An international pacifist network has handed over five years’ worth of unpaid tax to the UK government – while objecting that their money will fund war. War Resisters’ International (WRI), whose head office is in London, paid the money ‘under strong protest’ last week. They had resisted paying for as...
A century of peace activism
Almost a hundred years to the day since the Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) was launched, Quakers will gather to celebrate its work.
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Call for debt cancellation
As the European debt crisis continues, Quakers have joined with other faith groups to sign an open letter calling for debt cancellation and major changes to the world’s financial systems.
Action Week challenges stereotypes
Church Action on Poverty (CAP) say that the demonisation of poor people in the UK has become so severe that they have decided to make it the focus of this year’s Poverty and Homelessness Action Week. The Week will take place from 26 January to 3 February.
Quaker bank
A group of Friends who aim to set up a Quaker bank have formally registered their business with Companies House. It is called the Quaker Finance Trust.
Holocaust remembered
Quakers are preparing to join with others to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on Sunday. Organisers say it is a chance to learn lessons from the Nazi holocaust and other cases of genocide.
Eddie
He has no-one else to talk to or share his life with, being in a single cell in Norwich prison. He prefers to be alone and finds it difficult to share a room with other inmates. He has spent most of his adult life in prison. And that is two...
The hour-glass
I am but an hour-glass. These tiny glinting grains Comprise my store of seconds, My sum of joys and pains.
Eye - 25 January 2013
Whoosh, boo, behind you! Arrow-less bows, a host of Merry People and a pantomime – just what would a Quakerly version of Robin Hood look like? As panto season draws to a close, Eye was intrigued to learn of a Leaveners event that conjured up just such a spectacle – ‘The 24 Hour...
Letters - 25 January 2013
Mystical experiences I was so impressed by the article ‘The Road to God’ (11 January) and admired Noël Staples’ courage in writing it. I have had several mystical experiences in my life but have always found trying to talk about them very discouraging. At best I’ve been met by...