Issue 21-09-2012
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Thought for the Week: Silent day
It was a Saturday in May. There were about fourteen of us. The venue was the old Meeting house at Wandsworth in London. At the end of long, not-very-creaky wooden benches were copies of Quaker faith & practice and the Bible.
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The Quakers of Hartshill
In 1624, George Fox was born in the small Leicestershire village of Drayton-in-the-Clay (now known as Fenny Drayton). As a young man, he tended sheep in the nearby village of Hartshill. Later in life, he returned to Hartshill and met with Nathaniel Newton, one of the first generation of Quakers.
The golden anniversary of sex
‘Sexual morality is an area of challenge and opportunity for living our testimonies to truth, nonviolence, equality, integrity and love.’ Quaker faith & practice, 22.11 ‘We think it our duty, not to stand on a peak of perfectionism, asking for an impossible conformity while the tide of human life...
The Fire and the Hammer
The Fire and the Hammer is an epic work – with readers, chorus, soloists, piano and percussion – that recounts the story of young George Fox and the founding of Quakerism. It was composed by Tony Biggin and has a libretto by Alec Davison.
Call to name and shame tax dodgers
A leading political columnist has called for tax dodgers to be named and shamed. Peter Oborne, a journalist with the Daily Telegraph, was speaking at a debate organised by Christian Aid and chaired by Giles Fraser. It was held at Christ Church, Spitalfields, in London.
Quaker appointed to European peace post
The new general secretary of Church and Peace, the ecumenical peace church in Europe, is Hamburg Quaker Davorka Lovrekovic.
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New appointment at QHA
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) has appointed Siobhan Grimes as its new London-based part-time administrator.
Bruce Kent talks peace at Bootham
Bruce Kent, honorary vice-president of the Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament, will speak at Bootham School in October.
Youth work conference
The role of children in Quakerism is one of the topics to be addressed in the forthcoming Quaker Youth Work conference at Woodbrooke in Birmingham.
Winchmore Hill
Winchmore Hill Meeting House is participating in Open City, (London Open House), 22 to 23 September, the annual event that encourages visits to sites of architectural and historic interest. ‘We’re hoping to see hundreds of people this weekend who just didn’t know this treasure is here’, said spokesperson Stephen Cox.
Dying to live
Being familiar with the gospels can lead us into thinking that we know Jesus and his teaching very well. Then, when you read a book by a writer who has steeped himself in the text, and the context in which the author was writing, new perspectives dawn. John Churcher is...
Memorandum of a passage to England
My beloved friend Samuel having taken a cabin For himself in the ship called Mary and Elizabeth (James Sparks the master), wept when I spake to him, I feeling a prompting in my heart to travel steerage
Eye - 21 September 2012
Victorian discoveries Did Quakers make a splash in Victorian literature? Rosalind Kaye, Colchester Meeting, consulted Valentine Cunningham’s Everywhere spoken against: dissent in the Victorian novel – to illuminate Eye.
Letters - 21 September 2012
Time for change David Holmes (7 September) alleges that we are going to the dogs since (inter alia) the recording clerk has become a chief executive, so can no longer be a servant. Nonsense. Every recording clerk has always been a chief executive, whether responsible for three or 300 others. And every...