Issue 16-03-2018
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Thought for the Week: Waiting
In our gathered Meeting silence behoves us, nobody moves. Yet reflected by some water in a jug a chance light keeps on jiggling; a vibrancy affects this place.
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Quakers, Europe and Art Nouveau
Do you know of a room in which Quakers meet to worship where the walls are papered with embossed wallpaper, hand painted in gold? There is such a room, and it’s in Quaker House, Brussels, at the heart of the ministry of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA)....
BOWA
At an Experiment with Light weekend that I attended I was reminded of the acronym MOWS (Mind, Open, Wait, Submit). It refers to a structure that Rex Ambler, a founder of the project and author of books such as Light to Live By: An exploration in Quaker Spirituality and The...
Meetings, opportunities and outreach
Can you recognise anyone from your Meeting or circle of Quaker associates in the picture? Is your Meeting house a large, busy one with more than two staff? Well, in that case, perhaps you should know what these people have all been up to.
Being a chaplain
We are all familiar with the idea of a prison chaplain, or one working in a hospital, a hospice, a school or a university – but a sports team or a club, or even an offshore oil installation?
Being true to the essence
Are we a post-Christian Society? Dutch Friend Kees Nieuwerth (‘People of Peace,’ 2 March) expresses his keen regret that a fellow conscientious objector felt the Religious Society of Friends no longer offered him a spiritual home as some Quakers were calling themselves post-Christian.
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How Quaker Meetings work
Since I was very young, I’ve always wanted to know how things worked. What does this cog do, or that lever? So, it has long puzzled me as to what makes Quaker Meetings tick. It’s not been easy, finding a route through. What happens when a group of...
Fast in support of detainees
Quakers up and down the country supported people in the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre last week by joining a ‘freedom fast’. More than five hundred protestors, including Caroline Lucas MP, the Green Party co-leader, took part in the fast on International Woman’s Day on 8 March to support...
Clitheroe Meeting House celebrates first birthday
Friends in Clitheroe celebrated the first birthday of their new Meeting house last week, with cake after its Meeting for Worship. The Meeting house in Lancashire opened its doors last March, when they moved from their former historic site in Sawley due to its remote location and dwindling numbers.
New Economy Group meet MPs
Friends from the North London New Economy Reading Group met with MPs last month to talk about setting up an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on banking reform.
Quaker and Anglican nominated as ’secularist of the year’
A Quaker, Anglican clergyman and leading advocate on sexual abuse in the church has been nominated for the 2018 Secularist of the Year Award.
Women’s History Month is marked
Friends General Conference (FGC) has pledged to share stories of Quaker women in history throughout March to mark Women’s History Month.
‘Working in a Quaker School’
The ‘Working in a Quaker School’ conference was held at Sibford School near Banbury in Oxfordshire on 14 March. It focused on ‘Quaker beliefs, methods and values and business methods’, and was open to anyone working in a Quaker school.
Eye - 16 March 2018
In the graveyard attached to the Friends’ Meeting House in Wisbech there is a simple headstone with the initials ‘JS’ engraved on it. An age and date are also engraved on the headstone: ‘88’ and ‘1742’. This is the final resting place of Jane Stuart, who is believed to be a natural...
Letters - 16 March 2018
Soul friends Noël Staples (2 March) says that British Friends lack their own version of a spiritual direction tradition. However, I belonged for a time to the Quaker Retreats and One to One Ministry special interest group, which answered to that need but was eventually laid down. I was also...