Issue 18-05-2018
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Thought for the Week: Bereavement
My first experience of bereavement was as a child of eight or nine, accompanying my grandmother to the cemetery to put flowers on her late husband’s grave. He had died many years before I was born, so there was no immediate sense of loss for me. I remember walking...
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Britain Yearly Meeting 2018: Perspectives on the ‘Red Book’
On Saturday afternoon at Yearly Meeting Friends continued to respond to the question: ‘Is it time to revise Quaker faith & practice?’ The first part of the afternoon was devoted to ‘parallel sessions’ when groups of Friends met, in different spaces at Friends House, to discuss aspects of the Book...
Britain Yearly Meeting 2018: Sharing stories
Themes emphasising the importance of sharing stories and expressing beliefs enabled children and young people to explore issues related to Yearly Meeting’s consideration of Quaker faith & practice (Qf&p) from 4 to 7 May. There were 160 Friends aged under-eighteen taking part in Yearly Meeting, supported by twenty-nine adult volunteers...
Junior Yearly Meeting 2018: Epistle
Junior Yearly Meeting met between the 4 and 7 May 2018 to explore the theme: ‘Quaker faith in practice: What are our beliefs and how can we express them?’ There was a strong sense of community over this weekend. Indeed we learnt from Melinda Wenner Bradley (a Friend from Philadelphia Yearly Meeting) that...
Friends stitch tapestry
Friends from Staffordshire Area Meeting have stitched a tapestry to be shown at Lichfield Cathedral this summer. The tapestry will be on display as part of the Quaker Service Exhibition from 14 June to 2 July.
Supper for Syrian refugees
Bewdley Quakers joined more than eighty friends from Kidderminster for a fundraising supper last month. The event on 21 April was held to raise money for Syrian refugees and local homeless people. Local Syrian people provided the entertainment.
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Britain Yearly Meeting 2018: BYM trustees
The mutually supportive nature of relationships between bodies representing Friends throughout British Quakerism was one of the themes in the report of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees. Ingrid Greenhow, clerk of BYM trustees, spoke to the report on Monday morning and highlighted the enormous range and variety of activities engaged...
Gathering in Bogotá
In the final week of April the Global Christian Forum (GCF) met in Bogotá, the capital of Columbia. The Forum was founded twenty years ago at the instigation of the World Council of Churches (WCC) to bring together the churches traditionally involved in ecumenism with those previously not involved, primarily...
Northampton Friends fund Ugandan school
Friends in Northampton are celebrating the news that the final documents have been submitted for a new school in Uganda.
Development and discussion for children
Seven Friends gathered at Edgbaston Meeting House last month to share and develop ways of engaging better at Children’s Meetings.
Mount School cuts day fees to encourage more diversity
The Mount School in York has decided to reduce its day fees in order to encourage more diversity as a witness to its Quaker values.
Irish eco film planned
Friends in Ireland are creating a short film on ‘the spiritual journey of Earth care’ to share at Ireland Yearly Meeting in July 2018.