Issue 14-01-2011
Featured story
Roses at the Retreat
The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, one is nearer God’s heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.
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The Rowntree birthplace in York – rediscovered
Deborah Cadbury’s recent book, Chocolate Wars, mentions the shop owned by Joseph Rowntree Senior, ‘Grocer and Tea Dealer’. It became a convergence point for the junior members of three confectionery dynasties – Frys of Bristol, Cadburys of Birmingham and Rowntrees of York. The Rowntree home in 28 Pavement, in the heart...
Darlington’s doors open wide
This time last year Darlington Friends’ Meeting House was for sale. Today, its doors are wide open again and it is enjoying a new lease of life.
Prison stories – the story so far
May 2009, in York. In the main hall, momentous decisions were being taken about same-sex marriage; at roughly the same time, somewhere at the unfashionable end of the campus, in a room big enough for sixteen, sought in vain by some and discovered late by others, the Crime Community and Justice...
Armed Forces Bill and human rights
Defence Secretary Liam Fox was urged to uphold the human rights of forces personnel as he presented his Armed Forces Bill to the Commons this week.
Children robbed of their childhood
Retailers are robbing young people of their childhood by making them feel valued for what they own and not for what they are. That’s the claim of the Mothers’ Union (MU), whose campaign against the commercialisation of childhood is putting pressure on business to change advertising practices.
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Armed Forces Bill and human rights
Defence Secretary Liam Fox was urged to uphold the human rights of forces personnel as he presented his Armed Forces Bill to the Commons this week.
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Woodbridge arises
A new Meeting has been opened at Woodbridge in the east of England bringing Quakerism back to its roots in the area. The first Meeting began in 1678 and closed in 1937.
Letters - 14 January 2011
In the issue of 21 January there will be no letters as it is a special issue on the 350th anniversary of the Peace Testimony. Religious Society of Friends In Britain Yearly Meeting and other liberal Yearly Meetings I have frequently come across ‘refugees from Christianity’ who have pleaded to Friends...
A tale of two worlds
When I was a teenager I read avidly books by Margaret Mead, anthropologist and Quaker, and others on the ways of life of people in far off parts of the world. They prompted a passion within me to travel and to see for myself the places, and the native peoples,...
Q-eye - 14 January 2011
Our Friend Richard Pickvance of Blackheath Meeting has drawn the attention of Eye to an odd oversight by Michael Portillo. The former Conservative politician has transferred his enthusiasm for sitting in the House of Commons to a great passion for sitting on trains, which he now spends a lot of...