{"id":4069,"date":"2022-12-26T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=4069"},"modified":"2022-12-28T18:38:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:38:58","slug":"january-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/january-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Click to Download January 2023 PDF Version<\/a><\/p>\n

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Welcome to Young Adult Friends (YAF)<\/a>
\n<\/b>Taz Cooper <\/b><\/p>\n

YAF have introduced a new reading before meetings to make worship more accessible to newcomers. <\/i><\/p>\n

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Monthly Appeal
\n<\/strong>The Parasol Project <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The Parasol Project is an Oxford based charity committed to disabled and disadvantaged children and young people experiencing, or at risk of, social exclusion.<\/p>\n

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Recently in the Meeting House Library <\/b><\/a>Catherine Hilliard <\/b><\/p>\n

Some years ago, I did a cull of unused and largely superseded Biblical criticism which left room to expand the sections on pastoral care and green issues.<\/p>\n

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Photo by J Henderson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thoughts on Winter and Those with Low Incomes<\/a>
\n<\/b>Sarah Lasenby <\/b><\/p>\n

When we heard in the summer the news that many people are getting poorer and would find the cost of gas shooting up this winter extremely challenging, we decided to do something in solidarity with them.<\/p>\n

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Singing Before Meeting<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Anne Watson<\/b><\/p>\n

Bring in the New Year on the 1st <\/span>of January 2023 at 9:30 in the Meeting House when there will be \u2018Singing Before Meeting\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Spiritual Nurture 1
\n<\/b>13:30 – 15:00 Saturday 14 January 2023
\n<\/b><\/a>Faringdon (in person only) after MfWfB
\n<\/b>Harvey Gillman: \u201cSpiritual Hospitality at a Time of Uncertainty\u201d <\/b><\/p>\n

Harvey was outreach secretary for British Quakers for eighteen years. He is the author of many books, pamphlets, and articles on Quakers and spiritual life \u2014 his <\/span>best-known book is \u2018Consider the Blackbird\u2019.<\/p>\n

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News about the 43 Newsletter<\/a>
\n<\/b>The Newsletter Team <\/b><\/p>\n

We welcome Luke Young to the editorial team of the Forty-Three <\/i>Newsletter. Luke replaces Sherry Granum, who has laid down her role after two trienniums.<\/p>\n

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Do you Book Rooms at 43?<\/a>
\n<\/b>Jacqui Mansfield <\/b><\/p>\n

PLEASE READ if you book rooms at 43 for Quaker (or other) activities.<\/p>\n

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Update from Julia Dover, Youth Children and Families Development Worker <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

I greet you in friendship at the great still point of the year, a time when creatures of the forest, river, and sky are quiet.<\/p>\n

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Examining the Quaker Peace Testimony <\/b><\/a>Adria Gulizia
\n<\/b>QuakerSpeak<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018The peace testimony today is one of the things that binds, I think, all Friends across our very wide theological spectrum.\u2019<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>From Quaker Faith & Practice 24.49<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

People matter. In the end human rights are about people being treated and feeling like people who matter. <\/i><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Meetings for Worship<\/b><\/a>
\nJanuary 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 525 \u2022 January 2023
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

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

Copyright 2023, Oxford Quakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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