Issue 09-07-2010
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Globe Day at Bootham
Hundreds of pupils at Bootham School in York came face to face with the consequences of global capitalism last week. They were taking part in an unusual and innovative game as part of the school’s focus on ‘Globe Day’. ‘A Dangerous Game’ was invented by Mark Robinson, Bootham’s head of…
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Letters – 9 July 2010
Proud Quakers On 3 July I joined twenty-five or so others on the Pride London parade marching (and sometimes dancing!) behind the beautiful Quaker banner designed by Caroline Jariwala. While I had been to Pride in previous years, this time was special. In the course of a long, curling route…
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Methodists take action to reduce carbon emissions
Methodists have become the first large faith group in the UK to introduce carbon reduction measures that are binding on all their local churches. They have pledged an eighty per cent cut in carbon emissions by 2050. The decision has put pressure on other faith groups to follow suit. Triumph…
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Coalition government
The first coalition for sixty years, the election of Britain’s first Green MP and a race for the leadership of the opposition that includes a black woman MP gives parliamentary politics a different dynamic to the end game of the last Labour government. In coalitions, tone and substance can affect…
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The new peace politics
From Pacification to Peacebuilding by Diana Francis. Pluto Press. ISBN 978 0 7453 3026 6. £13.99. I received this book for review together with Paul Lacey’s Swarthmore Lecture The unequal world we inhabit. Paul argued that Friends have made nonviolence a shibboleth; if we take seriously the ‘responsibility to protect’…
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Scottish Friends attend Pride Scotia
Members of some Scottish faith communities marched through Edinburgh in Pride Scotia 2010, at the end of last month. Their aim was to 'stand up and be counted against the growing wave of religious extremism which, all too often, preaches a message of intolerance and exclusion,' explained a spokesman.
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Facing the challenge: The Friends Quarterly Prize essays
We have a stark choice before us. Are we going to actively address the key issues that face us in the twenty-first century and bring our Quaker way to bear on them, corporately and individually? Or will we simply be taken over by them and let Quakerism become obsolete. So… -
Q-Eye – 9 July 2010
Footprints for outreach Lewes Quakers turned a potential problem into an opportunity for outreach. A statue of Tom Paine close to the Meeting house was to be unveiled on Sunday 4 July (celebration of American independence), at the same time as Meeting for Worship. Our Friend Bob Booth takes up… -
Friends and honours
Clare Dimyon has explained (25 June) why, despite reservations, she has accepted an honour. I have once declined, once accepted, once returned, and once accepted the return of an honour, and the reasons for my different decisions may help further to illustrate the perplexities in this field, for Quakers and… -
Meeting for Sufferings July 2010: news in brief
Yearly Meeting Gathering 2011 theme ‘Growing in the Spirit – changing the way we live to sustain the world we live in’ is the theme for Yearly Meeting Gathering in Canterbury in 2011. The subject of sustainability will be a key focus for Friends for the next year and preparation… -
Putting criminal justice on the Yearly Meeting agenda
Friends House received a response from the UK Border Agency in reply to a letter sent to the former minister of justice about the detention of children and asylum seekers. -
Refurbishments at Friends House
It is a difficult time for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) committees as they adjust their programmes of work to comply with ‘A Framework for Action 2009-14’ and indicate how they would respond should the current level of resourcing become difficult to sustain. -
Meeting for Sufferings July 2010: Is the word ‘spouse’ archaic?
The struggle to find broadly acceptable, and meaningful, terminology to use in documents and records has been a defining characteristic of Quakerism. It is an important, challenging and at times very sensitive issue, especially in the times we live in. In the consideration of the revision of chapter 16 (Quaker… -
Re-thinking BYM
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) plays a key role in the life of the Society. At its best real discernment takes place and important decisions affecting our future are taken, sometimes radical ones as happened last year at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG).
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