{"id":3505,"date":"2022-08-25T21:01:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=3505"},"modified":"2022-08-31T02:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T01:30:22","slug":"september-2022","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/september-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click to Download September 2022 PDF Version<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Just Ask<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/b>Ellen Bassani<\/strong>
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 <\/span>In this piece I hope to share my experience of feeling included within my spiritual community, where I\u2019ve been a member for over forty years. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The Communicating Group – What’s This? and What’s Going On?!<\/a>
\n<\/strong>The Office<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trying to help with communication in a fragmented time, a couple of years ago we organised a monthly Zoom meeting for a representative of each group in the Meeting to attend and share what their concerns, joys, and issues might be.<\/p>\n

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Rewilding Meetings<\/strong><\/a>
\nYvonne Dixon<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do enjoy the \u2018incidental fellowship\u2019 of walking alongside people on hikes, pilgrimages, and walks such as these, and I wonder if OSAM could envisage something similar: a series of short walks starting from a Meeting House door and visiting a few sites of interest.<\/p>\n

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Return to the Home Country – Or ‘Look to Lesser Linen’<\/a>
\nKarima Brooke
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Now you feel at home, deported Red Kite!<\/p>\n

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Reminder<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Brighid Schroer <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

An Extended Meeting for Worship \/ Silent Retreat <\/span>will take place at 43 St Giles <\/span>on Saturday 3 September, 10:00 for 10:30, finishing about 13:30. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Musings Upon a 4-Year-Old’s First Encounter with a Meeting for Worship<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Juliet Henderson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Last Sunday I took my two grandsons, who were staying with Nana for three days, to the Combined Meeting for Worship: Felix a beansprout (2), and Theo a sunflower (4).<\/p>\n

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News of Fiona Mullins and Intentional Communities<\/a>
\nEric Roberts<\/b><\/p>\n

Fiona is now living in a cooperative
\ncommunity called Old Hall housed in an old friary in Suffolk.<\/p>\n

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Monthly Appeal September 2022<\/a>
\nJill Green<\/strong>
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Oxford Friends Action Against Poverty (OxFAP)<\/p>\n

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The Meeting Garden Party<\/a>
\nJuliet Henderson<\/strong>
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Many thanks to the organisers, and all who helped with setting up pagodas, welcoming at the door, washing and clearing up.<\/p>\n

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Time for Reflection<\/a>
\nAlastair Cameron
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Alastair Cameron, clerk of South East Scotland Area Meeting, led the Scottish Parliament in “Time for Reflection”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Quaker Faith in Action<\/a>
\nQuakers in Britain<\/b><\/p>\n

Quakers discuss how and why they put their faith into action.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>How to Become a Member of a Quaker Meeting<\/a>
\nQuakerSpeak
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Interested in becoming a Quaker? Here\u2019s how to join a Quaker Meeting and become a member.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Community Noticeboard Online, September 2022<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

From the Office<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>From Quaker Faith and Practice 21.13<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Knowing and Accepting Ourselves<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 521 \u2022 September 2022
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright 2022, Oxford Quakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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