{"id":3145,"date":"2022-06-28T15:09:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T14:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=3145"},"modified":"2022-07-01T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:54:48","slug":"july-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1199\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM-1024x808.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM-1024x808.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM-1536x1212.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM.jpg 1714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Forty-Three-newsletter-July-2022-final.pdf\">Click to Download July 2022 PDF Version<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sun-dried-goats-cheese-Masafer-Yatta.-JPG-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3157 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Sun-dried-goats-cheese-Masafer-Yatta.-JPG-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/shepherding-communities-under-threat\/\">Shepherding Communities Under Threat<\/a><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/b><b><strong>Gwithian Doswell<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Quakers in Britain\u2019 support and manage the UK and Ireland section of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) as part of our peace witness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Masafer-Yatta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3156 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Masafer-Yatta-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/monthly-appeal-july-2022\/\"><b>Monthly Appeal &#8211; July 2022<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel<br \/>\n<\/strong><b>Gwithian Doswell<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The EAPPI supports ordinary people to live for three months as human rights monitors in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Beware-Adders.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3163 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Beware-Adders-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/beware-adders\/\"><b>Beware Adders<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Anne Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Until seventy times seven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Traps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3087 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Traps-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/the-trap-grounds-nature-reserve\/\">The Trap Grounds Nature Reserve<\/a><br \/>\nGlen Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Follow on<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Flowers-on-a-white-wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3170 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Flowers-on-a-white-wall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/a-rant-what-do-love-and-truth-require-of-us\/\">A Rant: What do Love and Truth Require of Us<\/a>?<br \/>\n<\/strong><b>Nicole Gilroy<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Let us not lose our meeting\u2019s most precious resources to disaffection.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ukraine-Flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3173 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ukraine-Flag-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/friday-with-friends-ukraine-and-beyond\/\">Friday with Friends Ukraine and Beyond<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wilson-Graph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3176 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Wilson-Graph-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/we-love-to-love\/\">We Love to Love<\/a><br \/>\nKeith Wilson<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&nbsp;it looks like we Quakers love to love \u2013 which surely can\u2019t be such a bad thing in today\u2019s troubled world.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Seebohm1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3179 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Seebohm1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/the-interfaith-friendship-walk-19-may-2022\/\">The Interfaith Friendship Walk 19 May 2022<\/a><br \/>\nJuliet Henderson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flowers-and-rocks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3184 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flowers-and-rocks-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/the-spirituality-of-quaker-meeting-for-business\/\">The Spirituality of Quaker Meeting for Business<\/a><br \/>\nSarah Lasenby<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tintoretto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3187 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Tintoretto-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/the-dearest-freshness-deep-down-things\/\">&#8216;&#8230;the dearest freshness deep down things.&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\nSally Bayley<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/wheelbarrow-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3192 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/wheelbarrow-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/ministry-at-oxford-meeting-what-it-means-for-me\/\">Ministry at Oxford Meeting: What it Means for Me<\/a><br \/>\nMarieke Faber Clarke<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am a third-generation Christian pacifist as my Dutch grandfather, a Unitarian parson in the Netherlands, was an active pacifist.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flowers-against-the-wall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3195 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/flowers-against-the-wall-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/at-home-with-the-quakers\/\">At Home with the Quakers<\/a><br \/>\nBeth Edwards<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I found a diary entry the other day. It records my first attendance at a Meeting for Worship as 28<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;April 2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/In-the-middle-of-gardening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3202 size-thumbnail alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/In-the-middle-of-gardening-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/one-tap-for-yes-two-taps-for-no\/\">&#8216;One Tap for Yes and Two Taps for No&#8230;&#8217;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Deb Arrowsmith<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From cave paintings to Whatsapp groups, via town criers, semaphore, morse code; ways of communicating have evolved as we all do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Hozier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3239 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Hozier-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/hozier-shares-thoughts-on-his-quaker-upbringing\/\">Hozier Shares Thoughts on his Quaker Upbringing<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>SVT\/TV 2\/Skavlan<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Irish artist Hozier talks about his religious upbringing in this 2019 interview with Scandinavian talk show Skavlan.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lucille-Guindon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3240 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lucille-Guindon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/quakers-in-costa-rica\/\"><b>Quakers in Costa Rica<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Religion &amp; Ethics NewsWeekly<br \/>\nPBS.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Quaker community in Monteverde, Costa Rica.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pupil-of-Bootham-School-York.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3241 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pupil-of-Bootham-School-York-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/quaker-beliefs\/\">Quaker Beliefs<\/a><br \/>\nRonald Ellis<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>The essence of the beliefs of the Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, featuring the pupils of Bootham School, York<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Noticeboard-July-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3280 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Noticeboard-July-2022-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/community-noticeboard-online-july-2022\/\">Community Noticeboard Online, June 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the Office<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Faringdon-Friends-Meeting-House.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3299\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Faringdon-Friends-Meeting-House-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/oxford-and-swindon-area-meeting\/\">Oxford and Swindon Area Meeting<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday 9 July 2022<\/p>\n<p>July&#8217;s Area Meeting will be a special all-age meeting with a focus on our children, young people and families.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/september-2021\/from-quaker-faith-and-practice-september-2021\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1158 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-28-at-4.52.50-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/from-quaker-faith-and-practice-10-03\/\"><strong>From Quaker Faith and Practice 10.03<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"chapter-name\">Trouble of Soul and Humility<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/september-2021\/meetings-for-worship-september-2021\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1199 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Screen-Shot-2021-05-10-at-8.46.42-AM-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/meetings-for-worship-july-2022\/\"><b>Meetings for Worship<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>June 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/\">Back to July 2022 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 519 \u2022 July 2022<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright 2022, Oxford Quakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to Download July 2022 PDF Version Shepherding Communities Under Threat Gwithian Doswell Quakers in Britain\u2019 support and manage the UK and Ireland section of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) as part of our peace witness.&nbsp; Monthly Appeal &#8211; July 2022 Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel Gwithian Doswell The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/july-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 2022<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-3145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3145","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=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3306,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3145\/revisions\/3306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}