Issue 15-04-2011
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Life in Bethany
If you failed the 11+ in the area of Dorset in which I was born, school life ended for you at sixteen. Farming, apprenticeships, the army or early marriage were the options presented. I was interested in child-care, so I went to technical college to do a mainly placement-based course in...
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York Quaker speaks truth to power
A York Quaker has turned the tables on her local council to defend disabled people. City of York Council was obliged to debate the impact of its cuts programme last week after Ceri Owen gathered enough signatures to trigger a special discussion.
Meeting for Sufferings report
Quakers at the arboretum The prospect of a Quaker presence in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire is moving closer to reality. A working party, joined by representatives from Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW), has met several times in the past months to develop ideas. The working...
Karen Chouhan: economic equality for black communities in Britain
It was a visionary vision. ‘And I really believed it was achievable,’ says Karen Chouhan. ‘I’d been working in race equality for twenty-five or more years, there was still a pretty good swing going on race equality, and I had a whole range of contacts over the UK. So...
Gaddafi and Quaker faith & practice?
Muammar al-Gaddafi promotes his preferred model of governance through the ‘Green Book’. In Islam and the Third Universal Theory: religious thought of Muammar Al-Qadhafi (1991), the academic Mahmoud Ayoub states that it arose in part his from knowledge of the Quaker Business Method!
The Coalition, the cuts and the costs
It is just nine months since the coalition government assumed power. Even before the election, it was well known that the country’s finances were in a parlous state. The new government inherited a desperate financial situation, with a budget deficit of £150 billion and a national debt of over £1,000...
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Walk the walk
Are Quakers all talk and no actual action? In the past week I have seen two statements from Quakers that have both fallen way short of anything concrete and constructive.
April in Paris
It is a sunny spring late afternoon and a young American, attached to his nation’s embassy, saunters back to his apartment in a quiet part of Paris. As a foreign diplomat he is a rare phenomenon in the Paris of 1794, every other embassy having closed its doors and deserted...
All truth is a shadow except the last
David Boulton inspiringly describes (25 March) how three Quaker groups coming from different angles – including humanists, agnostics and atheists – found common ground at Woodbrooke.
Eye - 15 April 2011
A two wheel trend? Eye has heard of two Friends taking to the roads of Europe this spring to travel to various Meetings on the continent by motorcycle. Kimmett Edgar, who works for the Prison Reform Trust, has begun a five-day trip to Vienna for the UN Crime Commission, while...
Letters - 15 April 2011
Boycott, divestment and sanctions We rejoiced hearing the reports from so many sources that you have decided to join others who boycott goods from the illegal settlements according to International law. Your letter [informing of the boycott decision] is very moving and inspiring, and a sign of hope. In our...