Issue 31-05-2019
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Yearly Meeting Epistle, 2019
Loving greetings to Friends everywhere. Our themes have encouraged us to look through the lens of privilege at climate justice, and at diversity and inclusion. The opening session was one of tenderness and love. We heard about the need to be a trusting and trusted community, sharing our insights and...
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Yearly Meeting 2019
Note: several speakers offered their personal pronouns (he, she, they) before ministering. Where this did not happen we have made some assumptions. We apologise in advance for any errors. Reporting by: Caroline Barrow, Rebecca Hardy, Joseph Jones and Elinor Smallman – all staff at the Friend. ‘EXAMINING PRIVILEGE will be challenging’...
Friends’ shock over Jacob Rees-Mogg booking
There was shock and concern among Quakers last week when it was discovered that the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg took part in an event at Friends House in Euston.
Reading Friends host talk on European elections
Reading Quakers held an ‘information event’ about the European elections this month. Jessica Metheringham, the outgoing parliamentary engagement officer at Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), delivered a presentation at the event, which drew around twenty people.
Quaker MEP refuses stage with UKIP
The Quaker MEP Molly Scott Cato refused to take part in a European election hustings in Gloucester Cathedral because the panel included a UKIP member.
Quakers on anti-racism march in Berlin
Members of the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) were among the 30,000 people who took part in a march against nationalism and hate in Berlin this month. The ‘Ein Europa für Alle (One Europe for all)’ protest on 19 May was held exactly one week before the European elections in...
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Friends in Newcastle anti-nuclear event
Northumbria Friends were among those who took to the streets of Newcastle upon Tyne last month to publicise the links between their anti-nuclear campaigning and social justice concerns.
Letters - 31 May 2019
The forty-three per cent You reported (17 May) that, according to an article in The Economist, forty-three per cent of Quakers ‘don’t believe in God’, calculated by adding 28.1 percent who are ‘not sure’ to 14.5 per cent who say ‘no’. These statistics appear to have been extrapolated from the British Quaker...