Issue 14-09-2018
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Thought for the Week: Loving kindness
When I became a first time clerk of my Meeting I contemplated not just the meaning of the role of clerk, but also the meaning of Local Meetings generally: What is it that binds us together beyond the practice of gathering in silent worship on a Sunday morning? How should...
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Inconvenient choices
Two years ago I was sitting in Esher Meeting House, in the lovely old panelled room. I was worried about my children, whether I was really offering them the best of myself and helping them to explore the world, and also whether I should send them to school after having...
Philosophy for communities
To what extent is it OK to deceive to right wrongs? A group of twelve people, many meeting each other for the first time, agree that this is the question they wish to discuss. I’m the facilitator for the process. So far as I’m aware, they’re all...
Seasonal relationship disorder?
As I peered out the window of my car whilst returning from my Quaker Meeting, I was reminded that autumn was upon us. The leaves were, in the majority, still green, but some had a yellow or orange tinge to them. The seasons, as they ebb and flow, remind me...
Camel scorpions
Albert Delma’s new work, Camel Scorpions, is a weighty book of almost 600 pages, which rapidly becomes really entertaining, readable and informative. The main character is a country vicar, Martin Kimpton, from Herefordshire, who has developing doubts about the historical authenticity of Jesus. He focuses his attention on the period...
Life in uncertainty
See here – a new born child Created by love into the world. Brought from timeless eternity Into uncertainty. The illusion of time and space Now fuels the human race, Needing an identity in every place, Creating uncertainty.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell donates prize money
Quaker Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the leading astrophysicist, made headlines this month when she donated her winnings for a major science award to under-represented students.
Mustard firm founded on Quaker principles
A Norwich Quaker has founded a company in line with Quaker business principles. Social entrepreneur Robert Ashton started Norwich Mustard in order to keep mustard production in Norwich, after the famous mustard firm Colman’s decision to close its factory earlier this year.
FWCC launches fund for Young Friends
The Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) has launched a new Young Adult Friends Development Fund to support projects that ‘benefit and strengthen the network of Young Adult Friends around the world’.
Quaker designs stage for play on ‘truth’
A member of Winchmore Hill Meeting has stage-designed a play at the Southbank Centre in London, which explores the notion of truth in the world of fake news.
Fracking consultation
A briefing paper for Friends on how to respond to the government’s fracking consultation has been written by Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW).
Tottenham Friends hold garden party
Tottenham Friends held their annual Garden Party on 9 September.
QHA at homeless street festival
Quaker Homeless Action (QHA) took part in a new street festival for homeless people this month.
Climate change exhibition
Norwich Friends launched an exhibition at their Meeting house this month in partnership with Climate Hope and Action in Norfolk. The exhibition aims to ‘explore life in a rapidly changing climate, along with solutions and actions to bring them about’.
Widening our circle
One Friend summed up this year’s Canadian Yearly Meeting (CYM) with these words: ‘We welcomed Evangelical Francophone Friends, engaged in a week-long reflection on right relations with Indigenous peoples, and really listened to Young Friends and Young Adult Friends. God is calling us to widen our circle and to...
Letters - 14 September 2018
A Quaker wedding Thank you, Rajit Gholap (24 August), for your article about your wedding. You, Rachael and your Quaker registrar of marriages should be congratulated on the thought and care you took to conduct your ‘Solemnisation of a Marriage’. It is quite right that all your guests should expect and...