Issue 14-09-2012
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Thought for the Week: Role models
The Olympics and the Paralympics were more than just a defining chapter in the story of British sport. They raised important social issues, challenged perceptions and prompted reflection. ‘They were a tonic’, someone said to me, as if society had been ill and we were in need of a ‘pick...
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How was your commute today?
Sunday and Thursday are the Taybe days. We dread them. They mean rising at 3am, dressing in the dark, stumbling up the road to the taxi office, rousing the driver from his mattress beneath the stairs and taking a silent, twenty minute drive through grey streets to the Taybe/Ephrain...
The road not taken
As a Quaker and a Jew, I fear the Religious Society of Friends may be about to forfeit its ability to be effective peacemakers in the Israel/Palestine conflict. No longer will we be perceived as impartial intermediaries, but as political advocates of the Palestinian cause. Israel and Palestine...
New deputy recording clerk
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has announced the appointment of Juliet Prager as the new deputy recording clerk.
Young Friends highlight economic injustice
Young Friends have urged Quakers in Britain to become more involved in the debate over economic injustice and ethical investment.
Concern at cabinet reshuffle
Concern has been expressed at the decision to remove Liberal Democrat Nick Harvey from his post as minister for the armed forces.
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Scammers target Friends
Quakers have been targeted by scammers posing as Friends in need of money. The callers are making use of names and numbers available on Britain and Australia Yearly Meeting websites in their approaches.
Chelmsford Quaker witness
Chelmsford Quakers recently demonstrated their opposition to racism, and in particular to the activities of the English Defence League (EDL), by joining a protest march through the town as part of ‘United Chelmsford’.
Quakers celebrate in Preston
Every twenty years the city of Preston bursts into a big celebration for the week of the famous Preston Guild. This year local Quakers were part of the fun.
Barmy Barmoor bikers
Initially, the ride – a trip round all our Meeting houses – was called ‘Area Meeting on the move’. By the time we finished we had become the ‘Barmy Barmoor Bikers’. Weeks of planning and discussion by the ‘Friends of Questionable Sanity’ followed, during which time I fell off my bike...
The Indian bean tree
The list of trees to be planted in the Olympic Park (17 August) included an Indian bean. This tree is of particular interest to New Earswick Friends and is featured in the book Discovering New Earswick under the heading ‘Summer spectacular’. It is part of a fascinating chapter in Quaker history.
Staying true
Lynn Waddington was a Huckleberry child. Her river was the Delaware, idling through South Jersey, shared with brother and sister and swimming muskrats. A child in a natural world, she wrote, ‘can hear the footsteps of beetles far away.’ The family home sat without neighbours for many years until the...
Elsie
A nursing home. At ninety-three, your memory almost gone, You wonder where your mother is, and where is brother Don? You do not know what place this is, nor whether you belong. Worst of all, you are aware of something sadly wrong.
Eye - 14 September 2012
Treasured questions When faced with a gaggle of cub scouts, how would you get them engaged with the Quaker message? Ruth Harrison went along to see how Aylsham Meeting tackled the challenge, and she shared the intriguing results with Eye.
Letters - 14 September 2012
The armed forces I have often wondered why anyone would choose to join the armed forces. Colin Powell’s Thought for the Week (17 August) brought home the anguish which he, and many more families and friends, are living with on a day-to-day basis. I too have asked the question: what...