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Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: QPSW: Climate Justice: what does money have to do with it
Friends were told, in the interest group on climate justice, that if we do nothing the resulting chaos would be devastating.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Conscience and conscription exhibition
The library and corridors of Friends House during Yearly Meeting hosted an impressive exhibition of Quaker witness on conscience and conscription during the first world war.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Central Nominations Committee
The work of the Central Nomination Committee’s (CNC) twenty-one members is perhaps the most important and least well-known and understood of all the major Yearly Meeting (YM) committees, Friends heard at an interest group on Saturday lunchtime.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: The stories behind the statistics
A challenging production by Journeymen Theatre left a hushed audience with food for thought on Saturday. Lynn and David Morris performed ‘Feeding the Darkness… Shining a Light on State-Sanctioned Torture through Story, Poem and Song’ at a special interest group hosted by Quaker Concern for the Abolition of Torture (Q-CAT).
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Welsh pacifists celebrated
The inspiring work of two nineteenth century Welsh pacifists was highlighted in a well-received public lecture at Yearly Meeting. Richard C Allen, reader in early modern history at the University of South Wales, delivered the Friends Historical Society Presidential Address of 2016 on the subject of Providing a moral compass for...
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Growing nonviolent movements
Twenty-eight Friends squeezed together to hear Laura Shipler Chico of Quaker Peace & Social Witness’ (QPSW) overseas peacebuilding subcommittee describe the work taking place in Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi in a special interest group on Saturday 28 May.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Quaker Disability Equality Group
A dozen Friends met for the annual general meeting of the Quaker Disability Equality Group (QDEG) at a special interest group at Friends House on Sunday. QDEG’s annual report reflected an active year in which, among other things, the Group had been consulted by the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre...
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Eldership and oversight
The session on ‘Eldership and oversight: Deepening and growth of Area Meetings’ began in a familiar pattern. Friends present were given five questions to discuss in groups of three or four. The questions were about making newcomers welcome, and supporting elders and overseers.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Quakers hear from Talking Friends
On Saturday afternoon Friends gathered to hear about the role of Talking Friends in helping people with impaired sight gain access to written Quaker material.
Britain Yearly Meeting 2016: Friends House Moscow on Skype link
More than thirty Friends crammed into Drayton Room Four in Friends House on Saturday lunchtime for a Skype link with Sergei Grushko and Natasha Zhuravenkova in Friends House Moscow. The title of the session was ‘Russia is changing: How can we respond?’