Issue 16-02-2018
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Thought for the Week: Am I an evangelical?
Over ten years ago I was convinced that carbon dioxide was the prime cause of global warming. Later I learnt that nitrogen oxides were as bad, if not worse, and then I read that jet engines were effective at converting atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen oxides, and moreover generating it at...
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A Russian tale
In January 1986 the US magazine Friends Journal published an article entitled ‘What Happened to the Russian Quakers?’ Gary Sandman, the author of the text, quoted a few stories from Richenda Scott’s book Quakers in Russia – stories about Russian Quakers, presumably existing in Russia, but unknown to the world.
The Reformation and Friends: John Wesley
The legacy of the Radical Reformation was not just confined to the period immediately after Luther. The influence of the radical ideas that had been generated and the effect that leading figures, like Thomas Müntzer and Hans Denck, had on subsequent generations, cannot be overstated. Quakerism is one of...
The howl in my heart
Several weeks ago I attended a memorial service for the Holocaust and other genocides. The tabernacle was packed with adults and children from different faiths and none, all drawn for one reason or another to the purpose of the service: to acknowledge the horror of genocides of the past (and...
Prison chaplains
My first attendance at the Quaker Prison Chaplains Conference towards the end of 2017 was full of valuable information, friendly folk, encouragement, sparkling presentations and startling statistics.
Multi-media artist to give Swarthmore Lecture
The Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre has announced that the artist Chris Alton has been chosen to give the 2018 Swarthmore Lecture.
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Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings considers strategic aims for Quaker Life
Meeting for Sufferings, held at Friends House on 3 February, was asked to review and reflect on a series of strategic aims set out by Quaker Life Central Committee (QLCC) to shape Quaker Life’s future work.
Friends cleared of obstruction charges after peaceful protest
Two Quaker peace activists have been found not guilty of charges arising from protesting against the world’s largest arms fair, held last year by Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) in East London.
Hereford Quakers concern on Universal Credit
Hereford Meeting are exploring how they can help in the introduction of the Universal Credit (UC) scheme.
God, magnets and pigeons
Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull…What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one: philosophy. But this consists in keeping the divinity within a man free from violence and...
Bird on the wire
It was a chance meeting as they often are when you’re really doing something else, or going somewhere with purpose as I was that day, in my moveable house, wheels at each side, spinning along – earth-bound traveller.
Letters - 16 February 2018
Reflections on death and God’s love Recently I have been thinking about death. Not for the first time, in the winter of life, one is prone to reflections on this, one of the greatest mysteries of nature. What a waste, I thought, so much learning, acquired wisdom, feelings of...