11 September 2009
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‘Living simply’ in Baku
In 2007, three expatriates based in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, shared some concerns: how can we ‘live simply’ when we lead such privileged lives? We, a Quaker, a Baha’i and a Hindu, were painfully aware of the contradictions and compromises within our own lives in terms of care of the…
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Mayors and morals
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When a child is being bullied…
Philip Barron looks at new solutions to an age-old problem -
Jonah on display
When I was invited to give the Bible half hours at New England Yearly Meeting in the summer of 1967, I chose to give my first talk on the Book of Jonah. Apart from the Psalms, Jonah is my favourite part of the Hebrew Bible. Pretty well everybody knows about… -
Weymouth Peace Garden diary
The idea came, as all the best ideas do, over a cup of tea and a moment of silence. Some questions had cropped up in our group, all around the same time. Where do you go when you want to celebrate peace, rather than commemorate war? Isn’t it awful the… -
Restrained policing?
Everyone knows about the G20 policing. You can’t have missed the pictures of police aggression, the witness accounts of their beatings at the hands of the police and the horrific footage of the assault on Ian Tomlinson. But who heard about the policing of the climate camp last week? Both…
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Remembering the refugee children of the second world war
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When a child is being bullied…
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News round-up
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Mayors and morals
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Lessons to be learned…
Walking down Wat Tyler Road on Blackheath Common, I realized that the campers had chosen an ideal spot for their camp: site of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, it’s also common land from which they could not be evicted. The city of London, their target, could be seen clearly. The… -
Restrained policing?
Everyone knows about the G20 policing. You can’t have missed the pictures of police aggression, the witness accounts of their beatings at the hands of the police and the horrific footage of the assault on Ian Tomlinson. But who heard about the policing of the climate camp last week? Both… -
Letters
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‘Living simply’ in Baku
In 2007, three expatriates based in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, shared some concerns: how can we ‘live simply’ when we lead such privileged lives? We, a Quaker, a Baha’i and a Hindu, were painfully aware of the contradictions and compromises within our own lives in terms of care of the… -
Leviathan
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Jonah on display
When I was invited to give the Bible half hours at New England Yearly Meeting in the summer of 1967, I chose to give my first talk on the Book of Jonah. Apart from the Psalms, Jonah is my favourite part of the Hebrew Bible. Pretty well everybody knows about… -
Weymouth Peace Garden diary
The idea came, as all the best ideas do, over a cup of tea and a moment of silence. Some questions had cropped up in our group, all around the same time. Where do you go when you want to celebrate peace, rather than commemorate war? Isn’t it awful the… -
Visioning new fire
The cutting edge of a testimony, when boldly witnessed to, commands remarkable respect and attention. We have seen that this summer from the ground-breaking outcome of Yearly Meeting Gathering. It raises once more the question: how do we witness to the heart of the matter, our manner of worship, from…
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