Issue 03-09-2010
Featured Story
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Quaker camp
We went to our first Quaker camp as a family this year, having met as a couple at what was probably the first Quaker campers event at Warwick Yearly Meeting in 1982. The location was Tywyn, home of the Talyllyn Railway, which is a spot we’ve enjoyed going to before.…
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New date for world conference
The date of the Sixth World Conference of Friends which was due to take place in Kenya in August 2012 has been changed to April 2012.
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Time for peace
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Ohio Valley Yearly Meeting
The 350th anniversary of the Quaker Peace Testimony has been prompting interest and concern among Quakers throughout the world.
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How shall we remember them?
It’s not that history repeats itself – it doesn’t. But the issues that concerned and divided people in the past are still with us. Thankfully, the questions that the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) and the Friends Relief Service (FRS) had to ask themselves during the second world war are not…
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The tent of our Meeting
‘What are you going to write up for your dissertation?’ said the Methodist theology tutor. ‘I am not sure yet. I’ll wait and see where I am led,’ said the mature Quaker student.
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Relief for Indians as Vedanta’s bauxite mine plan is rejected
Inhabitants of a rural Indian community are celebrating after the authorities blocked plans by Vedanta Resources to develop a bauxite mine on their traditional land. The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust was one of several investors to ditch its shares in Vedanta in protest at the company’s plans. -
Letters – 3 September 2010
Staff leaving Yes, of course, it is human to speculate when Friends House staff resign. Similarly, it’s human to ask ourselves questions when a couple in our Local Meeting decide to separate – nevertheless, we step back from bothering them, we sit quietly with them in worship, we hope for… -
An open-minded, challenging, prophetic Christian festival
Well over a hundred people are holding beer glasses in the air and belting out the hymn ‘Thine be the glory’. It would be a surprise in the beer tent at any other festival, but after two days at Greenbelt, it seems normal. Drawing over 20,000 visitors during the August… -
Q-Eye – 3 September 2010
Do as I say The problem with being in authority is that you often end up telling other people what to do but do not do it yourself. For example, here is a Westminster Council CCTV car parked on double-yellow lines in order to catch people committing traffic offences for…
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