Quaker Fellowship in Christ
About twenty participants of the Christian Quaker Renewal Fellowship gathered at Woodbrooke for the annual May weekend. Most are active members of their local Quaker Meeting.

It is a joy to attend as there is always a great sense of fellowship and support in the group. The periods of worship are often very deep. It was fascinating the way we talked through the questions with a lot of prayer and thoughtfulness.

A dear friend, Thomas Swain from Philadelphia, USA, facilitated our deliberations and with great sensitivity encouraged us to give evidence of our commitment to both Christianity and Quakerism under the theme ‘There is one…’ in which our unity with one another, as well as our common allegiance to Christ, was stressed.

We shared insights in small groups as well as in the full gathering.

During a healing session we held ‘in the light’ all those seeking our support. Later that evening we had a ‘threshing’ session when we considered our aims and how to bring our message to those looking for a Christian emphasis in Quakerism. A possible change of name was mentioned.

Then, in our Sunday Meeting for Worship for Business, the new title proposed for the group was ‘Quaker Fellowship in Christ’. This new definition was felt to be right and a new leaflet with this title has been prepared.
Anne E Marshall

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• Posted by The Friend on June 30, 2010

  A letter published in the 2 July 2010 edition:

  Bob Needham claims (Letters, 28 May) that if the battle of Britain had been lost, Jews in Britain would have been arrested, deported to Auschwitz, and gassed. I am surprised that in subsequent correspondence no one has mentioned the way the Nazis’ attempt to deport Danish Jews was thwarted by non-cooperation on the part of the church, civil servants and police and indeed the population generally. There were specific reasons for this, including the humane values fostered by Denmark’s Folk High Schools. It may well be that Britain in 1940 did not have the resources to respond as the Danes did. Even so, I think that Bob’s assumption that British people would have been incapable of non-cooperation in the face of barbarity under-estimates our compatriots. And at the age of eighty-three I think I have as much right to say that as Bob does his view at the age of a mere eighty-one.
  Geoffrey Carnall