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‘Time to Act’
Friends are being called to join the Time to Act on Climate Change march that is being held in London on 7 March. The march will bring people together on the streets of London to demand real action on climate change. The organisers intend to lobby politicians seeking election. They argue...
Molesworth ‘invasion’ remembered
Friends marked the thirtieth anniversary of the ‘invasion’ of RAF Molesworth with an all-faith service at the entrance to the Cambridgeshire base. Seven Quakers from Leicester, Stevenage and London joined with others from Peterborough, March and St Neots on 7 February.
Gloucestershire Friends back amputees through World Cup setback
Quakers in Painswick and else-where in Gloucestershire are supporting amputee footballers in Sierra Leone. Friends are helping fundraise for the Sierra Leone Single Leg Amputee Sports Association (SLASA), which works with young men who lost limbs in the civil war. The team qualified for the finals of the Amputee Football...
Meeting for Sufferings: Quaker values in education
In late 2013 some Area Meetings brought concerns to Meeting for Sufferings about the state of education in Britain today. The concern has grown strongly since then through an informal ‘Quaker Values in Education’ group and other initiatives. A threshing gathering, held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in August 2014, was...
Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings told of a ‘Quaker treasure box’
Rowena Loverance, assistant clerk of Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR), spoke to their annual report. She explained that QCCIR reports to Meeting for Sufferings every year, but this is the first time under the committee’s new set of terms of reference. Douglas Butterfield and Ben Wood...
Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings responds to climate calls
Sufferings heard minutes from the Quaker Peace & Social Witness (QPSW) Central Committee meeting held at Friends House on 21-23 November 2014. Both dealt with energy justice and climate policy.
Meeting for Sufferings: Interfaith peacemaking conference planned
Friends at Meeting for Sufferings were informed that the Quaker Committee for Christian and Interfaith Relations (QCCIR) plan to offer a one day conference in Friends House in the autumn of 2015 on interfaith peacemaking.
Meeting for Sufferings: What it means to be a Quaker today - membership
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) recording clerk Paul Parker spoke to his paper ‘What it means to be a Quaker today’, presented at Yearly Meeting 2014. He focused on Minute 40, which asked for two things. The first of these was ‘further exploration by Area Meetings of the flexibility already allowed around membership...
Meeting for Sufferings: The end of a long journey
Catherine James, convenor of the Church Government Advisory Group (CGAG), spoke to the proposed redrafts of chapter sixteen and section 3.27 of chapter three of Quaker faith & practice.
Meeting for Sufferings: Britain Yearly Meeting trustees report
Jennifer Barraclough, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees, spoke to the minutes of the BYM trustees meeting held on 30-31 January. Jennifer said that she wanted to highlight one or two of the issues minuted. She began by thanking Meeting for Sufferings for its help and support over the...