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…
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…
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,…
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 &…
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…
Chris Skidmore, clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, reminded Friends that Yearly Meeting 2015 would be held at Friends House from 1 to 4 May 2015. It will open a new chapter in the…
The Religious Society of Friends in Britain has joined other faith groups in calling on politicians to end tax avoidance. The recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting, Paul…
Isolated Friends in the north of Scotland are addressing the challenge of living out the Canterbury Commitment to sustainability. Jane Booth writes in a recent edition of The…
Some Friends have begun to give their winter fuel allowance to Quaker Social Action (QSA). Five Friends have donated their allowance. The donations were spontaneous, rather than…
Janet Scott made the Quaker faith a major theme of the sermon which she delivered in Great St Mary’s, ‘the university church’, Cambridge, on Sunday 1 February. It is a…
Barbara Windle, of York Area Meeting, spoke on Radio Five Live on 26 January about the ordination of the Church of England’s first woman bishop. Presenter Adrian Chiles asked…
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