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May 2023 Forty-Three Narrated Version
Newsletter Editors
For this month, we are trying an experiment with a narrated version of Forty-Three.
Friends’ Fellowship of Healing
Yvonne Dixon
A revival of the Friends’ Fellowship of Healing (FFH) meetings.
Artweeks Exhibition at the Meeting House
Rebecca Howard
We are looking forward to a week which will enable us to combine showing our artwork and doing some light touch outreach for the Meeting.
Redressing Inequalities
Carol Saker
The theme for the day was “Acknowledging the impact of the slave trade, colonialism and economic exploitation on the lives of many today; what should and can, we do?” Several from Oxford attended.
Book Review: Passengers: True Stories of the Underground Railroad by William Still Jean Moir
William Still (1821 – 1902) was a leading light in the Underground Railroad which helped runaway slaves reach the Northern States safely and find work and lodgings.
Hope’s Work
David Gee
The Quaker movement has strived from the first to face the world as it is – in care, thoughtfulness, and faith.
Report on St Hilda’s College Chaplaincy
Meryem Kalayci
Background Paper for Meeting for Business for Worship on 3 April 2023
Monthly Appeal May 2023
Charles Worth
Oxford Meeting’s Quaker charity for April is Refugee Resource.
Lately
Stephen Yeo
Jenny Lewis and Stephen Yeo warmly invite you to Oxford Quaker Meeting House to launch Stephen’s first poetry collection: Lately
Epistle – Junior Yearly Meeting 2023
Quakers in Britain
Eve Park and Olwyn Lewis-Bowen, Clerks of Junior Yearly Meeting, read the letter from Junior Yearly Meeting to “all Friends everywhere”.
Connecting to Quaker Faith Through Film
Martin Krafft
QuakerSpeak
I think being a good artist, you never know– whenever you start a project you never know what it’s going to turn out as, and if you do know it’s going to be bad because you’re not engaging in active discovery.
Quaker Question and Answer
Charles Worth
Londoner, son of Anglican priest and ecumenical mother. Teacher, educator, learner. Husband, father, grandfather
From Quaker Faith & Practice 12.03
With our structure, we risk failures in understanding and transmitting our tradition, and failures in pastoral care.
Meetings for Worship
May 2023
This Month’s Forty-Three Newsletter Contents
- May 2023
- Narrated Newsletter
- Friends’ Fellowship of Healing
- Artweeks Exhibition at the Meeting House
- Redressing Inequalities
- Book Review: Passengers: True Stories of the Underground Railroad by William Still
- Hope’s Work
- Report on St Hilda’s College Chaplaincy
- Monthly Appeal May 2023 – Refugee Resource
- Lately
- Epistle – Junior Yearly Meeting 2023
- Connecting to Quaker Faith Through Film
- Quaker Question and Answer – Charles Worth
- From Quaker Faith & Practice 12.03
- Meetings for Worship – May 2023
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Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 529 • May 2023
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