{"id":2408,"date":"2022-01-26T18:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T18:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=2408"},"modified":"2022-01-31T17:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T17:19:36","slug":"february-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/february-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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George Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Steeplehouses, Social Media and SEND<\/a>
\nNicole Gilroy<\/b><\/p>\n

Worship and Worth-Ship as a Burned-Out Parent<\/p>\n

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Eleanor Hugging her Dad who is Seriously Ill<\/a>
\nEleanor Gilroy<\/b><\/p>\n

A child’s drawing<\/p>\n

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Lies<\/a>
\nDana Littlepage Smith<\/b><\/p>\n

Falsehood flies, <\/span><\/i>and Truth comes limping after it \u2026 <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Jonathan Swift, 1710 <\/span><\/p>\n

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Living in the Spirit<\/a>
\nJennifer Wates<\/strong>
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Meeting as a group to pay attention to a passage of spiritual writing, and sharing responses. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Southport, Queensland. Photo from Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Plant, a Time, a Place<\/a>
\n<\/b>Ellen Bassani<\/b><\/p>\n

A Queensland Christmas is an exhausting business, you know. <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Image from Food Standards Agency, UK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Top Marks<\/a>
\nOffice<\/strong>
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The kitchen at 43 has been awarded 5 stars <\/span>for food hygiene by Oxford City Council Environmental Health Department. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Joe Collett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Kickstart Starter<\/a>
\nJoe Collett<\/strong>
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My name is Joe Collett and I am 19 years old.<\/p>\n

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Photo by SL Granum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Message from Janet Toye<\/a>
\nJudith Atkinson
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Janet is grateful to Oxford Friends for holding her in the Light while John was ill and since his death. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by SL Granu,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Crash-Testing Isaac<\/a>
\nTrio Watson
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I\u2019d like to thank Keith Wilson for his exploration of one of my favourite passages from Quaker Faith & Practice \u2014 Isaac Pennington\u2019s advice to \u201cgive over thine own willing\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo provided by Marg Paton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tabora League for Children Says ‘Thank You’<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Marg Paton<\/strong><\/p>\n

A big thank you from the children of Tabora League for Children (TLC) in Tabora, Tanzania, for their yummy Christmas lunch, their gifts, and for their families\u2019 food parcels of rice and beans. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Alistair Fuller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Equality and ‘that of God’ in everyone<\/strong><\/a>
\nAlistair Fuller – Quakers in Britain
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In 1647 George Fox recognised that God\u2019s light is within everyone. Alistair explains why this matters today. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Friends House London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

20 things Quakers are doing to build a racial justice movement<\/strong><\/a>
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…we put together 20 of the things we have been doing to protect human rights and be in solidarity with newcomers to the UK. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Don McCormick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Writing a Spiritual Autobiography<\/strong><\/a>
\nDon McCormick, Quaker Speak
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\u2026if you think about it some of the most influential books in the history of Quakerism (George Fox’s journal and John Woolman’s journal) were spiritual autobiographies. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Photo provided by Virginia Allport and Glen Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monthly Appeal<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Hope Institute, Kampala, Uganda
\nVirginia Allport and Glen Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Institute trains young women and men from low-income families in skills that will enable them to become economically self-sufficient. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>43 St Giles Community Noticeboard Online, February 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

From the Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>From Quaker Faith and Practice
\n<\/strong>12.01<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Careful listening is fundamental to helping each other; it goes beyond finding out about needs and becomes part of meeting them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Meetings for Worship<\/b><\/a>
\nFebruary 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 514 \u2022 February 2022
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

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Click to Download PDF Version Steeplehouses, Social Media and SEND Nicole Gilroy Worship and Worth-Ship as a Burned-Out Parent   Eleanor Hugging her Dad who is Seriously Ill Eleanor Gilroy A child’s drawing   Lies Dana Littlepage Smith Falsehood flies, and Truth comes limping after it \u2026  \u2014 Jonathan Swift, 1710  Living in the Spirit Jennifer … Continue reading February 2022<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2561,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2408\/revisions\/2561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}