Issue 27-08-2010
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The good ego
For many years now I have been striving to become ‘a better person’ but I’m left with this feeling that my desultory, half-hearted and half-baked efforts (though occasionally met with some sort of semi-success) are, in truth, just manifestations of my ego becoming more subtle in winning approval from others…
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Faith not charity
‘Startlingly powerful’ and ‘gloriously vibrant’ are not terms you normally expect to hear applied to a Quaker Business Meeting but they understate what happened the other month in our Area Meeting. I have lived through Preparative Meetings and Monthly Meetings where watching paint dry would have been a welcome diversion…
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Quakers and the Charities Act 2006
The Charities Act 2006 included the ending of excepted status for religious charities. They were required to register with the charity commission at dates to be specified. -
Quakers aid flood relief in Pakistan
Lancaster Quakers remember the day, a decade ago, when Mukhtair Zaman came to Meeting for Worship – his warm presence, his ready smile and the twinkle in his eye. He said he felt called to step out from his career as pulmonologist at Blackpool Victoria hospital, to return to his…
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In Tokyo with love
Silence is a natural demand born of a need for God felt by young and old in all world’s religions. In silence we may worship together sharing our search for life, sharing our quest for peace sharing God’s gift of love. Friends General Conference
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Climate campers take on bank
Visitors to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe were taken by surprise on Monday, when environmental campaigners staged protests at sites connected to the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). There were at least three arrests at an RBS branch in the city centre after activists superglued themselves to walls and furniture.
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Circles of Support and Accountability
Two Quakers have been honoured for their work by the Circles UK charity. -
Pakistan debt repayments equal to new loans
Aid to Pakistan is falling well below the sum the country spends every year to pay back its international debt. -
100 days
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Your burden is my burden
A few weeks ago I attended a church evening service and felt moved by the hymn, ‘The day thou gavest Lord is ended’ and the lines: -
Did you find God in the garden?
If Wordsworth had stood up in a Meeting for Worship and ministered about ‘a host of dancing daffodils’, would he have been accused of ‘daffodil ministry’? When we use this term in a negative way, do we mean that the ministry is predictable? Words about the natural world, as with… -
Letters – 27 August 2010
Recording clerk I imagine that many Friends will be concerned that Britain Yearly Meeting’s two most senior executive officers have both left the Society’s employment at short notice, and within a very short time of each other. -
Q-Eye 27 August 2010
Oral history The Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex is offering a three-year funded research studentship to complete a doctoral dissertation on the topic ‘Seldom have so few helped so many’ (Alfred Bader) ‘Quakers as Rescuers during the Nazi Period’. It begins in October. From 1933 to…
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