Issue 13-08-10
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A witness of war
Clifford Barnard was a conscientious objector in the second world war. He joined the Friends Ambulance Unit and worked in Germany where was part of the team that relieved Sandbostel concentration camp in 1945. Binding the Wounds of War: A young relief worker’s letters home 1943-47 has just been published.…
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Peace: a concern for all ages
Quakers have been urged to put sustainability and economic justice at the centre of their struggles for peace. An all-age conference asking ‘What do we mean by peace?’ involved the unusual feature of young people over eleven participating on the same basis as adults, with younger children joining them for…
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The return
An article in the Friend began it all. In early 2001 an article of mine, about my life as a prisoner of war (PoW) in the second world war was published in the Friend. In it I wrote positively about the final eighteen months of my captivity. I had spent…
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The truth within
‘That of God in everyone’: When Quakers talk about this, what do they really mean? I have come to understand this to be the Christ Spirit, symbolising a principle, a power, a divine essence. Since joining Quakers I have come to know the Christ principle, the Christ spirit without having…
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered
Unity service in Coventry Over 100 people attended a commemoration event in Coventry Cathedral’s Chapel of Unity on 6 August that was organised by Coventry Quakers. Hideko Okamoto and Midori Sumida from the Hiroshima Coventry Club (an informal Friendship Link with Coventry) travelled to UK to take part in this…
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Green light for new Kenyan constitution
Last week a referendum took place in Kenya to decide whether to accept a new constitution. Sixty-nine per cent of the vote was in favour. Approximately sixty-three per cent of the adult population registered to vote and about seventy-two per cent of the registered voters cast ballots. This was a…
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A new rhythm begins
Former home secretary Ken Clarke, now back in office with the coalition government as justice secretary, speaks out against the incarceration of increasing numbers of convicted criminals. The prison population has, he says, doubled since he was home secretary. He promises a more ‘sensible’ approach with greater emphasis on tagging… -
BYM recording clerk resigns
The recording clerk of Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), Gillian Ashmore, has resigned, it was announced last week. -
The Friends Quarterly: essay competition
Dear Friends ‘… there is nothing more joyful and life-enhancing than living in consonance with the Truth and with our deepest values, especially if we are part of a community doing this together...’ (Linda Murgatroyd, from the prizewinning Friends Quarterly essay Holding Spaces for the Spirit to Act.) -
Q-Eye – 13 August 2010
The queen’s approach ‘It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.’ Said who? Elizabeth Windsor on her recent visit to the United Nations. Would British Quakers dare press the queen on what she meant and how serious is… -
Letters - 13 August 2010
Correction Readers may have been puzzled by a reference to ‘ordinary decent lies‘ in my book review last week (6 August). It makes an odd kind of sense, but what I intended to say was ‘ordinary decent lives’. John Lampen
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