Issue 17-06-2016
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Thought for the Week: Joyful tidings
In a broadcast Good Friday meditation given by an ex-colleague I was surprised to hear him speaking about the way in which listening to Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos had been the crucial factor in his recovery from a near fatal heart attack. He said that whenever he listened to them,...
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The Lollards
A memorial stands on the hill overlooking the Buckinghamshire market town of Amersham. It marks the spot where, at two separate times in the early sixteenth century, seven men and women were burnt at the stake for heresy. The seven were Lollards and part of a growing group across Europe...
Blood and earth: modern slavery
Kevin Bales is co-founder of Free the Slaves, consultant to the UN Global Program against Trafficking of Human Beings and author of a widely praised book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Don’t talk about how the big people eat at the big table These words, spoken...
Europe: Remaining at the table
Our vision for Europe is of a peaceful, compassionate, open and just society, using its moral influence to encourage other countries and peoples towards the same goals. It is of a community of peoples which acts towards individuals and other communities as we would have others act towards us. As...
Europe: Looking to the future
The quality of public debate on the forthcoming EU referendum has, sadly, rarely lifted above the level of pantomime. Are we better off in the EU? The media seems to be filled with cries of ‘Oh yes, we are’ or ‘Oh no, we’re not’. It has been hard to...
‘Living the transformation’ in The Netherlands
‘Living the transformation’ was the theme for Netherlands Yearly Meeting, which took place from 3-5 June at Bennnekom.
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Friends’ witness features at Irish Famine event
The programme at the 2016 Irish Famine Summer School and National Famine Conference includes a session on Friends’ contribution to famine relief.
G4S contract at Friends House cancelled
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) has terminated a contract with security services firm G4S. G4S had provided maintenance for the access control system at Friends House for more than eight years. This will end on 3 August, when a three-month notice period expires.
Bradford Friends support statement on migrant crisis
Bradford Quakers joined other local faith communities recently to issue a statement on the migration crisis.
Leaveners videos online
Stop motion animation videos made by young Friends with the help of Quaker arts group the Leaveners are now available to view online.
June action on Trident
Trident Ploughshares has designated June 2016 a month of daily direct action against Trident renewal. The campaigning group has called on supporters to ‘resist, protest and disrupt’ the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system in a series of ‘creative nonviolent actions’ at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield.
Treasurers gather
Almost sixty Friends will meet in Swanwick, Derbyshire, between 17 and 19 June for the Annual Conference of Treasurers (ACT).
What are Quakers?
At heart we Quakers are mystics, Experiencing the Light, We trust in love and peace, And choose to heal, not fight.
Eye - 17 June 2016
A place for peace Uttoxeter and Burton Friends marked the opening of a peace garden in May. Friends have been restoring the Meeting house garden and burial ground in Uttoxeter for the past two years. The peace garden was officially opened by Janet Dean, former MP for Uttoxeter, on 21 May,...
Letters - 17 June 2016
Raising our giving When Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) treasurer Peter Ullathorne suggested at Yearly Meeting that Friends consider raising the level of their giving, he quite properly added that decisions could not be made on how the extra money would be spent ‘until we know we have it’ (3 June). That...