The Friend is a weekly magazine in which Friends speak to each other and to the wider world, offering their insight, ideas, news, nurture and inspiration.
Nurturing Quaker community, each issue offers a space for Friends to share their concerns, and to support each other in faith and witness.
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‘Remember my face’, my mother said to me before she died, expressing a deep human longing to be seen. When a beloved dies, that face is gone and never gone. They leave a remnant of themselves in our hearts, in our eyes, and in the way we see the world.
Today, a new epochal truth confronts us: our way of life is destroying the Earth. What testimony flows from this truth?
Aaron Bushnell was a normal person like you and me – until he wasn’t. He then became the best in all of us.
The Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT) is calling on the financial giant Vanguard to pick a ‘climate champion’ for its next CEO. The call came after it was announced that the current CEO, Tim Buckley, is retiring. EQAT is urging Friends to write to the board asking that they recruit someone who puts the climate first.
We lost a Friend this week.
He died just round the bay
where the estuary meets the sea.
A sweet day for us today
surfing, sunshine and Meeting
– it’s all worship, isn’t it?
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