Issue 01-06-2018
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Thought for the Week: The search
I have spent most of my adult life searching for something. I’m still searching, so I assume that I’ve not found it yet. It might considerably increase my chances of success if I even knew what it was I was looking for! I don’t think it’s ...
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Thou art the man
Too long had wrongs and oppressions existed without an acknowledged wrongdoer and oppressor. It was not until the slaveholder was told “Thou art the man” that a healthful agitation was brought about. Woman is told that the fault is herself, in too willingly submitting to her inferior condition; but, like...
A quiet joy
During Meeting for Worship recently it was brought home to me by some ministry that we should not – need not – dwell so much on the problems of the world. They will come and go, always. We should not be preoccupied with fathoming the nature of God, Jesus, or any other ...
Farfield Meeting House
‘This is the most peaceful place, away from the noise and stress of life, very spiritual’ is a comment written in the visitors’ book at Farfield Meeting House in West Yorkshire.
The need for change
The movement against climate change is growing in momentum. But behind climate change lies capitalism, as Naomi Klein has pointed out in her book This Changes Everything, one of many anti-capitalist books published in the past twenty years.
Will we welcome Jesus back?
Cap Kaylor (23 and 30 March) has challenged us to enquire where our Religious Society of Friends is to look for its ‘identity and its engine’. He writes of the importance of narrative in the human search for meaning, as he points to the picture of Jesus ‘lost along the way’ but...
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Artist’s illustration of ‘drawing activism’
The Quaker Artist Jill Gibbon, who masquerades as an arms trader to access private events, is to give a talk about her work and the arms trade.
‘Conchies’ play goes to Edinburgh Fringe
A Lincolnshire pacifist community that included several Quakers is the subject of a play being taken to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August.
QAAD urges more action on gambling
Quaker Action on Alcohol and Drugs (QAAD) has welcomed the government’s decision to reduce the maximum fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) stake from £100 to £2, but says ‘there is much work still to do’.
Bath Quakers mark Windrush anniversary
A number of Bath friends are supporting a Bath Interfaith Group initiative to mark the seventieth anniversary of the Windrush migration.
Housing Trust help for ‘Live Work and Heal Hub’
Quaker Housing Trust (QHT) is contributing towards the funding of a ‘recovery and transition hub’ for women who have experienced domestic abuse.
Book on Quaker surgeon wins literary prize
A book telling the story of the life of Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister has received widespread literary acclaim.
Campaign Day in Yorkshire
Yorkshire Quakers took part in the West Yorks Campaign Against Arms Trade ‘Campaign Day’ in Leeds on 19 May.
QAN draw in more members
The Quaker Arts Network (QAN) have said that their membership is on the increase. More than 300 people, including poets, musicians, actors and artists, are now members of the organisation.
Letter to foreign secretary
The Northern Friends Peace Board (NFPB) is one of thirty organisations that have signed an open letter to the foreign secretary Boris Johnson that calls on the UK to take action on multinational nuclear disarmament.
Love never shouts
The GalGael Trust in Govan, the shipbuilding area of Glasgow, grew out of a 1990s’ motorway protest camp. People found community around a campfire. Today, hundreds of long-term unemployed folk have been through our training programmes or sailed the wooden boats that we have made.
Cherry blossom
Outside my window I can see Pink blossom on the cherry tree. Delicate, a lovely sight, It gives me such intense delight.
Eye - 01 June 2018
Experience and inspiration Friends’ creative juices were flowing as Winchmore Hill Meeting hosted an art exhibition of works inspired by Quaker experiences. The exhibition, on 14-15 April, featured fifty-eight pieces from Friends in North London Area Meeting, including sculptures, photographs, mosaics, word clouds and paintings.
Letters - 01 June 2018
A moment of blessing Although we had already heard variations of the question numerous times over Yearly Meeting 2018, when our clerk finally asked us: ‘Friends, is it time to revise Quaker faith & practice?’ the words still came as something of a shock. The question before us was stark and...