14 August 2009
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A convincing Quaker voice
As Quakers we’re encouraged to attend to what love requires of us. Last week in York we attended to what love required of us, after twenty-two years of careful discernment. It was a magnificent and historic minute that we finally approved on the Friday afternoon and I felt a palpable…
Top Stories
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Together we can! Restorative justice gains regional momentum
Restorative justice is gaining grassroots support from many local authorities, regardless of the total lack of interest from national government, a conference has heard. At the Restorative Justice Consortium’s summer conference, focusing this time on ‘Becoming a Restorative County/Local Authority’, participants were told: ‘Together we can make a difference’. Restorative… -
Nathan the Wise
In the same year that Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code launched the Knights Templars into modern popular culture, the Chichester Festival Theatre’s 2003 revival of a little-known German play of 1779 offered a somewhat more nuanced reading of the Templars’ place in Crusading history. As the world awaits the September…
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YMG – a family perspective
I’ve been going to Yearly Meeting and Summer Gathering ever since I’ve been a Quaker. And for those twenty-seven years, be it at Friends’ House or elsewhere, I’ve been in the main sessions. Which is to say, the adult sessions. Since they were born, my children have also been present…
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Letter – Journalists at YMG 3
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Letter – Thank you
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Letter – Journalists at YMG 2
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Letter – Journalists at YMG
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Letter – Availability of Quaker faith & practice
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Letter – same-sex marriage 2
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Letter – Same-sex marriage 1
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Letter - More thanks
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I hope to be at another YMG
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Q-Eye – 14 August
Breaking new ground Should national journalists and broadcasters be allowed into Yearly Meetings? (No doubt some of you thought they were at YMG, with all the coverage it got!) We expect we are going to hear a lot more of this now that Meetings have been asked to give an… -
A convincing Quaker voice
As Quakers we’re encouraged to attend to what love requires of us. Last week in York we attended to what love required of us, after twenty-two years of careful discernment. It was a magnificent and historic minute that we finally approved on the Friday afternoon and I felt a palpable… -
Together we can! Restorative justice gains regional momentum
Restorative justice is gaining grassroots support from many local authorities, regardless of the total lack of interest from national government, a conference has heard. At the Restorative Justice Consortium’s summer conference, focusing this time on ‘Becoming a Restorative County/Local Authority’, participants were told: ‘Together we can make a difference’. Restorative… -
The Epistle of Junior Yearly Meeting 24 July to 1 August 2009
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standing up for what you believe in
Last October I wrote an article for the Friend in which I looked at the success of the Quaker Quest programme here on the Isle of Wight, a success that was unequalled throughout Britain. The programme invited Quakers and non-Quakers like myself to explore a spiritual path through a series… -
Minutes from the under-19s
The different age groups at Yearly Meeting Gathering each read out a final minute at the end of Yearly Meeting Gathering... -
Spiritual nurture for newcomers
Oliver Robertson examines two projects aiming to build community and spiritual connectedness within Quaker Meetings Two initiatives to help bring newcomers into Meetings and deepen their understanding of Quakers featured at Yearly Meeting Gathering. Quaker Quest, the programme of evening workshops providing an introduction to Friends, is setting up a… -
Israel/Palestine: ‘All of us together, without hatred, without fear’
Clare Bat Dimyon responds to the shooting of young people in Tel Aviv who were coming to terms with their sexuality My elation and joy at hearing that Britain Yearly Meeting had decided to adopt the same processes for the reporting of same-sex partnerships died less than twenty-four hours later… -
Framework for action ‘is a shape with spaces for things to happen in’
Friends at Yearly Meeting Gathering were called to let their lives bear witness to the priorities of British Quakers. The report of Meeting for Sufferings, the Quaker representative committee that created the framework for action that will guide British Quakers over the next six years, outlined how that body is… -
The road ahead
Stephen Cox offers his personal thoughts about some of the issues Quakers and their Meetings have to contend with when moving forward on same-sex marriage The editor of the Friend asked me to write a Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship response in six hundred words. Try four. ‘Wonderful. Wow. What…
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