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Scottish Friends hear of tax reform
More than thirty Quakers attended General Meeting for Scotland at Glasgow Meeting House on 12 September.
Quaker academics meet
‘Nonconformist responses to the world war one’ was the theme for the Quaker Studies Research Association’s annual conference.
Friends take to the waves
Irish Friends were among members of Eco-Congegration Ireland who prayed in the sea on 30 August.
Meeting for Sufferings: Long Term Framework
Forward planning for the future work and witness of Friends was at the heart of Meeting for Sufferings held at Friends House in London on Saturday 5 September. Julia Gordon, clerk of the Long Term Framework working group, introduced the latest deliberations of the working group to Sufferings in the morning...
Meeting for Sufferings: Vibrancy in Meetings
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) recording clerk Paul Parker and Sandra Berry, director of the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, spoke about the Vibrancy in Meetings initiative. The joint BYM and Woodbrooke endeavour has been developing over several years. In 2012 ninety-nine Meetings took part in a research project aimed at...
Meeting for Sufferings: National Memorial Arboretum proposal
Friends from Southern Marches Area Meeting have proposed, in an Area Meeting minute brought to Meeting for Sufferings, that a ‘memorial to the innocent victims of war’ be created at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
Meeting for Sufferings: QCCIR presents revised offerings
Further to minute MfS/15/02/11, the Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR) brought a revised paper to Meeting for Sufferings. The committee hopes to send it to the World Council of Churches (WCC), and for it to be used as a study text for Meetings. Sufferings was asked to...
Meeting for Sufferings: Report on the work of QPSW
Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee (QPSWCC) clerk Charlotte Seymour-Smith told Sufferings ‘how we do it is as important as what we do’. She explained that much of QPSW’s work is about the long term. She spoke of questions over QPSW’s geographical footprint and of the challenges...
Meeting for Sufferings: Credit unions
The number of people in Britain who live in poverty today and who do not have access to financial services has been a concern of Friends in Wales. In May Friends attending North Wales Area Meeting/Cyfarfod Rhanbarth Gogledd Cymru produced a minute that encouraged Friends to explore the possibility...
Meeting for Sufferings: News in brief
Handbook group laid down Sufferings approved a proposal to lay down the Meeting for Sufferings Handbrook Group. The group was set up in 2003 to revise and review the handbook. As this is not often required, group members felt that having a separate Handbook Group is not a sensible use of...