Issue 15-10-2010
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Early Day Motion tabled to increase armed forces recruitment age
Ministers are under pressure from backbench MPs to end the recruitment of sixteen-year-olds into the armed forces. Politicians from several parties are signing a motion on the issue following a campaign pioneered by Quakers and Unitarians.
A day without oil
I embarked on my ‘oil free’ day at the invitation of Operation Noah, a Christian organisation working on climate change. Their newly launched ‘Carbon Exodus’ challenges the churches to recognise the impact that oil dependency has on the earth’s wellbeing and to shift towards a zero carbon future. As...
Quaker week celebrations
The theme of belief in action was taken up and reflected in many different and imaginative ways by Friends throughout Britain during this year’s Quaker week. Up and down the country Quakers hosted exhibitions and talks focusing on a wide range of subjects including Quaker testimonies of peace and...
Nuclear disarmament – and the sanctity of life
In a world already threatened by the consequences of climate change, economic collapse and the brunt of wars borne principally by civilians, the existence of any nuclear arsenal, particularly our current combination of over 23,000, speaks dire peril. Medical professionals have long been involved in speaking truth to power on this...
The Word
– The Word has disappeared into Flesh; become implicate, folded into the tapestry of things.
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A rolling vision
What sort of religious community can we be?
Welcome to Utopia
David Cameron is often accused of not really believing in anything, of having no consistent political principles, and many right wing conservatives are suspicious of the coalition he has formed with the Liberal Democrats. For his part, the man who stood behind Norman Lamont on Black Wednesday seeks to convince...
From summer school to shindig
Some time around 1961 or 1962 a residential gathering for Quaker teenagers in Scotland and the north of England was held for the first time. Over the following half-century it changed its name and moved house several times. But two things have not changed: the commitment and loyalty of the staff team,...
Q-Eye - 15 October 2010
The Gillespie connection In the Friend’s outreach edition there is an interesting link between the first and third pictures on page 12, points out reader Philip Jacob. ‘The first image is a group of evocative bronze figures commemorating the plight of starving people in the Irish Famine of 1845-51. The...
letters - 15 October 2010
Extend the hand of friendship Further to the report on this item from the Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends House on Saturday, 2 October (8 October), I thought it would be worth clarifying that Friends House London Hospitality Ltd is the wholly owned trading arm of Britain Yearly Meeting and not...
100 Quakers plant 100 trees
Muswell Hill Quakers, with Lynne Featherstone MP and Nikita Yerenkov Scott holding trees, as they celebrated 100 years of their Meeting by planting 100 trees. Everyone from the oldest to the youngest helped, including people from the preschool and other groups that have used the Meeting house over its history as well...