Issue 02-09-2016
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Thought for the Week: The Spirit of Love
The Spirit of Love is within us, We are here to bring good news to the poor; We are here to heal the broken hearted, We are here to bring deliverance to the captives, the downtrodden and the oppressed.
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The joyous burden of love
A concern arose… that I might feel and understand their life and the Spirit they live in, if happy I might receive instruction from them, or they be in any degree helped forward by my following the leadings of Truth amongst them. John Woolman 1720-72 During our journey to America...
Turning faith into fiction
Mike: How does it feel to have your first novel published? I understand it’s been a long time in the making. Peter: I’m very excited. Yes, I began writing the book over twenty years ago while still at school, but I’ve changed a lot in the intervening...
The spirit of friendship
International relations is not the first matter that comes to mind when you stand outside the 300-year-old Friends Meeting house in the tiny hamlet of Almeley Wootton in Herefordshire. Yet friendship is growing between this remote Quaker community in the west of England and one in the north German city...
Adam Curle remembered
The peace scholar Adam Curle is to be remembered at the University of Bradford next month, when the centenary of his birth will be marked. The Adam Curle Centenary Symposium on 5 and 6 September will bring together peace researchers and practitioners from around the world.
Quakers at Greenbelt
Quakers had a vibrant presence at the Greenbelt festival of arts, faith and justice held near Kettering in Northamptonshire on 26-29 August. Outreach was a key theme with crafts for children, videos and pop-up speakers on offer throughout the bank holiday weekend along with a range of flyers, leaflets, balloons...
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New cluster takes shape
The Quaker Life Network has launched a Quaker Meeting Librarians Cluster. The initiative aims to enable Friends who run their Meeting libraries to do so with confidence.
Climate justice champion at Friends House
Bill McKibben, a founder of the campaigning organisation 350.org, spoke about his work on fossil fuel divestment and the fight for climate justice at Friends House in London on 28 August.
2016 Eva Koch scholars
Presentations were given at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham on Saturday 20 August by the four 2016 Eva Koch scholars.
Kendal Meeting House celebrates 200 years
Kendal’s historic Georgian Quaker Meeting House on Stramongate is opening up to the public to celebrate its double centenary.
African American Friends gathering
The Annual gathering of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent was held at Arch Street Friends Meeting House in Philadelphia from 12 to 14 August.
Spare the wasps, Friends urged
The Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) has called on Meetings to dispose of wasps humanely. QCA’s Thom Bonneville stressed that wasps are important because they help with pollination and will leave of their own accord in the autumn.
Cooking for our Future
Friends in Ludlow have contributed twenty-one recipes to a new cookery book, Cooking for our Future.
Spiritual discernment
As Quakers, our Society cannot function effectively until each member and attender understands fully, and is both willing and able, to practice spiritual discernment. Whilst of late the word discernment has been written, spoken about and quoted on many occasions, there seems to be little awareness of what it means...
Who do we care about?
I am ashamed to say that I voted to stay in the EU at the recent referendum. Ashamed? Yes, because something deep inside me knew it was wrong but I did it anyway, betraying my inner voice. For many years I have supported the concept of ‘small is beautiful’, so...
Eye - 02 September 2016
The root of the matter Sheila Hancock spoke to Broadleaf magazine, the magazine of the Woodland Trust, about Quakerism in their spring edition. Christine Francis, of Stoke Meeting, spotted the interview in the section ‘Trees & me’, where Sheila speaks of her earliest memories of the countryside and how trees...
Letters - 02 September 2016
Academies for Quakers I would like to pick up two of the points made by Nick Tyldesley (26 August). I believe it is crucial for our beloved Society that there should be strong connections between Local Meetings, Area Meetings and Friends House, perhaps like a kind of spider’s web: if...