Issue 16-10-2009
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Gardening as shared with Rwanda
When she was touring East Africa with the Friendly Folk Dancers, Elizabeth Cave of Ealing Meeting saw at first hand the terrible problems confronting Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide and she was moved to do what she could about it. Her Growing Together project, under the auspices of…
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The rising cost of living longer
In 1948 life expectancy in the UK was sixty-six for men and seventy-one for women. Now the national average is seventy-seven for men and eighty-two for women. For the first time, there are more people over the age of sixty-five than there are under eighteen. While the fact that more… -
Status QUO
Inspired by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (actually an octet) and their performance of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy at the Proms last August, Forest Hill Friends in south London have formed their own Quaker Ukulele Orchestra, or QUO. The twelve beginning strummers have as their teacher the ‘beginner-in-chief’, Chris…
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An uncomfortable gathering
Our Advices & queries are offered ‘… for the comfort and discomfort of Friends…’ and so was this year’s Border Meeting. This annual event brings Quakers and friends of Friends together for a weekend of learning, fellowship and fun, and in this part of Europe is hosted in turn by…
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France Yearly Meeting 2009
France Yearly Meeting, small in numbers, but rich in spiritual energy, gathered at Pontmain on the Normandy/Brittany border for the second year. The venue is a former seminary, a huge, solid, rather austere, spacious building in many lovely acres of tranquil woodland. Here it is believed that in 1871 two… -
Mount School gets new head
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A Quaker wedding to remember
Yes, these are Quakers, on their wedding day. Members of their Meeting proudly sent us this marital shot and gave us a report of the day, which we reprint here: -
Something to think about
Good Value: reflections on money, morality and an uncertain world by Stephen Green. Allen Lane. ISBN: 978 1846142 36 9. £25. Here’s a book from one of what has been called the ‘City bonus brigade’, which will be of great interest to Quakers for a variety of reasons. The author… -
Climate change action
Quaker involvement with climate change campaigning has been on the increase in the run-up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. In particular, this involvement has recently been galvanised by two international movements: ‘350’, which aims to raise awareness of the need to reduce carbon dioxide… -
Peace activists blockade NATO base.
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Quaker testimony to simplicity leaves lasting mark at Scottish university
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What moves you? Leicester Quakers demonstrate their faith
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Time to speak out
When dipping into Howard Brinton’s The Religious Philosophy of Quakerism I came across the following piece and found myself smiling at the thought: ‘Here we go again!’ Dated 1837, the extract is from a letter written by an Orthodox Friend in Philadelphia to John Wilbur: ‘I received thy letter and… -
Inclusion
Doncaster Meeting House is in the middle of a large housing estate in an area of social and economic deprivation. There are high-rise flats, council housing and sheltered housing. One Sunday morning three people walked into the Meeting house. We had never seen them before. They told us that they… -
Noah was not a conservationist
Having been stimulated by Mark Dowd’s article in the Friend about Operation Noah, the Christian campaign focusing on climate change (9 October), I went to their website to find out more. Most of it was excellent but one part that irritated was the answer to the question: Why Operation Noah?… -
Letters - 16 October 2009
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Maggie jumps for joy
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Are you having us on?
Margaret Doubell and Tony Haynes have been telling Eye about a mythical country called Ruritania. They’ve been reading a collection of yearly meeting reports of said country, published as a book recently by Phillip Gething. This name may occur to some – slightly older – readers from spoof reports published…
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