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Shepherding Communities Under Threat
Gwithian Doswell
Quakers in Britain’ support and manage the UK and Ireland section of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) as part of our peace witness.
Monthly Appeal – July 2022
Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel
Gwithian Doswell
The EAPPI supports ordinary people to live for three months as human rights monitors in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Beware Adders
Anne Watson
“Until seventy times seven.”
The Trap Grounds Nature Reserve
Glen Williams
Follow on
A Rant: What do Love and Truth Require of Us?
Nicole Gilroy
Let us not lose our meeting’s most precious resources to disaffection.
Friday with Friends Ukraine and Beyond
Jane Mactaggart, of Oxford Meeting, has been regularly attending international Meetings for Worship organised by Friends House Moscow (United States branch) six days a week since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
We Love to Love
Keith Wilson
it looks like we Quakers love to love – which surely can’t be such a bad thing in today’s troubled world.
The Interfaith Friendship Walk 19 May 2022
Juliet Henderson
This sense of joyful unity in diversity was symbolised by the multi-coloured, biodegradable balloons on sticks distributed at the synagogue that we all carried as we walked.
The Spirituality of Quaker Meeting for Business
Sarah Lasenby
I suddenly realised that by using Quaker methods for the main sessions it was possible for anyone to contribute by ministry, guided by the spirit.
‘…the dearest freshness deep down things.’
Sally Bayley
From the age of four, when I acquired words, I knew there was the visible world, the printed word on the page, and the invisible, the world beyond.
Ministry at Oxford Meeting: What it Means for Me
Marieke Faber Clarke
I am a third-generation Christian pacifist as my Dutch grandfather, a Unitarian parson in the Netherlands, was an active pacifist.
At Home with the Quakers
Beth Edwards
I found a diary entry the other day. It records my first attendance at a Meeting for Worship as 28th April 2019.
‘One Tap for Yes and Two Taps for No…’
Deb Arrowsmith
From cave paintings to Whatsapp groups, via town criers, semaphore, morse code; ways of communicating have evolved as we all do.
Hozier Shares Thoughts on his Quaker Upbringing
SVT/TV 2/Skavlan
Irish artist Hozier talks about his religious upbringing in this 2019 interview with Scandinavian talk show Skavlan.
Quakers in Costa Rica
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
PBS.org
Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Quaker community in Monteverde, Costa Rica.
Quaker Beliefs
Ronald Ellis
The essence of the beliefs of the Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, featuring the pupils of Bootham School, York
Community Noticeboard Online, June 2022
From the Office
Oxford and Swindon Area Meeting
Saturday 9 July 2022
July’s Area Meeting will be a special all-age meeting with a focus on our children, young people and families.
From Quaker Faith and Practice 10.03
Trouble of Soul and Humility
Meetings for Worship
June 2022
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 519 • July 2022
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