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‘We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together’? Keir Starmer, is he joking?!
There’s a quote from William Penn that many Friends are fond of: ‘True godliness don’t turn men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavours to mend it.’ But perhaps we forget that it goes on, ‘Not to hide their light under a bushel but set it on a table in a candlestick’.
Was Thomas Paine (1737-1809) the ultimate Quaker? He had strong convictions, believed in God but not in organised religion, and had an unerring capacity to annoy both friends and foes alike. So that’s probably a yes.
Twenty years ago, fifty-two people were killed in London by Muslim extremist suicide bombers. This caused a big backlash against Muslims, the vast majority of whom were as aghast as anyone else.
The Green Olive Trust (GOT UK) has been generously supported by individual Friends and Local Meetings during the last eleven years, since our partnership with the Green Olive Foundation (GOF) in Kenya was formed.
This fascinating book is a unique artwork and a poetic novel, combining concrete poetry and outsider art.
They came into your school one time
And told you it’d be fun
If one day you grew up
And knew how to hold a gun.
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