Issue 08-06-2012
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Thought for the Week: What being a Quaker means to me
At yearly meeting I met my grandmother on the way to a session on ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’. She said it was a question that every Friend should think about, young and old. She invited me to respond to it – in writing. Okay. By...
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Children and young people’s minutes
The New Shoots (0-2 year olds) We the New Shoots have been exploring our place in the world, learning that sharing is caring and caring sharing. It has been fun making new friends and finding that having someone to slide down the slide with is better than arguing over a...
Junior Yearly Meeting
Junior Yearly Meeting Epistle To all Friends everywhere, On Friday May 25 2012 seventy-five Young Quakers between the ages of sixteen and eighteen met at Lee Valley Youth Hostel to explore our theme: ‘Bearing Witness to bring about a just and compassionate society’. We enjoyed a sunny weekend of fun...
Fellowship
A sense of fellowship It was my first time at BYM and, having heard about over 1,000 Quakers in one room in a Meeting for Worship for Business, I was intrigued about the atmosphere and whether it would be possible to achieve stillness and silence in a group that big....
All are equal
I arrived at the special interest group entitled ‘Firbank Fell’ by one of those mistakes that sometimes show the hand of God working in mysterious ways. In his three-hour address at Firbank Fell, George Fox took his audience of a thousand people, who had come from nearby chapels, through...
Imagining a different world
Can you imagine a different world? One where society is seriously grappling with the main challenges that face us today: climate change, corporate greed, poverty? Now, imagine that you are able to do this in an environment where everyone is swimming in the same direction, not vying for accolades...
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Working together
‘No big deal’ is hardly the way we generally refer to our relations with other Christian churches, but it was the overall message I picked up from Roberta Rominger’s engaging talk at Britain Yearly Meeting on Saturday 26 May at lunchtime.
Welsh Quakers work to end military recruitment in schools
Quakers in Wales have joined with MPs, peace activists and other faith groups to call for an end to military recruitment in Welsh schools. The campaign was launched in Cardiff’s Temple of Peace on Friday. The campaigners insist that military visits to schools glorify war and misrepresent the...
Accountability and decisions
A plea for more accountability in the making of major decisions in the Society of Friends was raised from the floor at Britain Yearly Meeting.
Quaker witness at Hlekweni
Friends were reminded at Britain Yearly Meeting to mark the forty-fifth anniversary of a pioneering Quaker project in post-colonial southern Africa. Hlekweni, the Quaker training centre near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, represents an amazing example of ‘Quaker witness to economic justice and sustainability’, a Friend asserted.
Exploring art and faith
A Quaker arts project is gearing up for a summer of activities that explore Quaker spirituality through music, drama and film.
Faith pilgrimage
Friends at Britain Yearly Meeting were urged to take part in the ‘faith pilgrimage for justice’ next month in support of the Occupy movement. The pilgrimage is being organised by Occupy Faith, a network of religious supporters of the Occupy movement, and will involve pilgrims walking from London to...
Quaker exhibition at the National Memorial Arboretum
The Quaker Service Memorial Trust exhibition at the National Memorial Arboretum runs until 16 June.
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Letters - 08 June 2012
Large Meeting House refurbishment Was I the only person to be alarmed when the clerk to the trustees – rather glibly and bluntly – told the Yearly Meeting session that the primary purpose of the Large Meeting House is now to earn money for the Friends House hospitality company?