Issue 27-01-2012

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Thought for the Week: Speak up, speak out!

FREE 26 Jan 2012 | by Stevie Krayer

First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out  Because I was not a Communist

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Olympic opportunities

26 Jan 2012 | by Peter Green

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort . . . | Photo: akiwitz / Wikimedia Commons

How do you respond to the idea of the 2012 Olympics in Britain? With excitement and anticipation, with resentment and doubt, or with indifference?  In the midst of our often mundane and busy lives, the Olympic Games taking place in Britain this summer represents a tremendous opportunity: an opportunity for...

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Reaching Out: Publishing truth - Quaker Quest style

26 Jan 2012 | by Michael Hennessey

Words from all five of the Reaching Out articles were used to make this ‘word cloud’ showing the frequency of their usage. | Photo: Wordle.net

A quest is powered by questions. On a Quaker Quest these questions will be spiritual ones of profound significance to those who ask them. Seekers dare to cross the threshold of a Quaker Meeting house for the first time because something stronger than their apprehension impels them in the search...

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The White Book of Carmarthen

FREE 26 Jan 2012 | by Symon Hill

The White Book at Caerfyrddin | Photo: CND Cymru

Quakers in west Wales are preparing for a historic visit – by a book. The White Book of Carmarthen, launched by Welsh pacifists, is touring Wales and is expected to be welcomed shortly at Carmarthen Meeting.

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Eye - 27 January 2012

26 Jan 2012 | by Eye

A scene from the YouTube video that has gone viral | Photo: Friends’ School Lisburn

Friends video goes viral Friends’ School Lisburn, in Northern Ireland, has produced a zany promotional video that is attracting hundreds of thousands of hits on Youtube.

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Christian unity experienced

26 Jan 2012 | by Symon Hill

Several Quaker Meetings have welcomed worshippers from local churches in celebration of the week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In a number of towns, united worship was held at a different place of worship on each day of the week, which ran from 18-25 January.

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Swiss banks criticised

26 Jan 2012 | by Symon Hill

Friends in Geneva have strongly criticised Switzerland’s banking and financial systems. Geneva Monthly Meeting said that institutions in their city are responsible for ‘acute social and economic difficulties now experienced around the world’.

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Warning issued against ‘vulture funds’

26 Jan 2012 | by Symon Hill

Two years after a successful campaign against ‘vulture funds’, the NGO, Jubilee Debt Campaign, has warned that the European debt crisis will give them a new opportunity to take advantage of poverty.

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Anglicans inspired by Quakers

26 Jan 2012 | by Symon Hill

Anglican environmentalists say they are inspired by the example of British Quakers in divesting from the multinational oil firm BP. They have launched the ‘Good Steward’ campaign to call on the Church of England to follow suit.

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Corridors of light

26 Jan 2012 | by Rosalind Smith

A while ago I heard someone on the radio use the expression ‘mental furniture’. She was referring to those comforting thoughts and ideas that come to the forefront at times of trouble, anxiety, illness or perhaps even danger. They are the thoughts that we turn to in order to give...

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Letters - 27 January 2012

26 Jan 2012 | by The Friend

An Area Meeting yet to come I was very inspired by Jane Robinson’s poem (13 January) where, at an Area Meeting, the spirit of George Fox says: ‘So tell me Friends are Quakers strong in speaking truth and righting wrong across the world so wide?’ The Area Meeting suddenly sees...

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