{"id":4302,"date":"2023-02-16T21:36:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=4302"},"modified":"2023-02-23T15:15:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T15:15:08","slug":"march-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/march-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"March 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Children and Young People and Families Update<\/a>
\n<\/b>Julia Dover<\/b><\/p>\n

As the days soften and lengthen, as the sap begins to run, we enter the time of Wonder for OSAM Friends.<\/p>\n

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Washing in Winter<\/a>
\n<\/b>Carol Lange
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A poem.<\/p>\n

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A Talk on the ‘Failure of Narrative’<\/a>
\n<\/b>Julia Dallaway<\/b><\/p>\n

Despite their contrasting writing styles, these two pieces shared the same preoccupation with narrative, especially the ways we impose narrative structure upon our life experiences. <\/p>\n

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Call for a Counsellor<\/a>
\n<\/b>Alan Jiang<\/b><\/p>\n

I volunteer for a charity in Bicester, Nai’s House, which gives mental health support to young people (up to age 25, roughly).<\/p>\n

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Please Return Spare SALTO Key Cards<\/a>
\n<\/strong>The Office<\/b><\/p>\n

Have you got one of these which you don\u2019t need?<\/p>\n

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Quaker Resonances in Psychoanalytic Thinking<\/a>
\nDenise Cullington<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

When we write something, we want to be able to reach others.<\/p>\n

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All-Age Worship: Sunday 5 March<\/a>
\nMatthew Gee<\/b><\/p>\n

Our next all-age meeting for worship will be on Sunday 5 March as part of the 10:30 single meeting for worship.<\/p>\n

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Monthly Appeal March 2023<\/a>
\n<\/b>Gwithian Doswell<\/b><\/p>\n

The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel <\/strong>(EAPPI) supports ordinary people to live in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

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EAPPI UK & Ireland are Recruiting for their Next Cohort of Human Rights Monitors!<\/strong><\/a>
\nGwithian Doswell<\/b><\/p>\n

Consider applying or help us spread the word!<\/p>\n

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Post of Deputy General Manager Oxford Quaker Meeting<\/a>
\n<\/b>Jacqui Mansfield
\nMeeting House Manager<\/b><\/p>\n

Oxford and Swindon Area Quaker Meeting are seeking to appoint a Deputy General Manager to work alongside the General Manager.<\/p>\n

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For Thy Great Pain have Mercy on My Little Pain <\/em>by Victoria MacKenzie<\/a>
\n<\/b>Nicole Gilroy<\/b><\/p>\n

For a borderline atheist in lifetime recovery from an extreme Roman Catholic upbringing I do have a rather soft spot for medieval East Anglian Christianity.<\/p>\n

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Britain Yearly Meeting<\/a>
\nJudith Atkinson<\/b><\/p>\n

Britain Yearly Meeting is the central body for all Friends in Britain and serves to keep us in touch with the many and varied things which are happening at different levels of the Society.<\/p>\n

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Oxford Quakers on Art<\/a>
\n<\/b>Trio Watson<\/b><\/p>\n

So last week\u2019s meeting for worship, where many ministries responded to my initial one about Good Art, was a real flagship meeting.<\/p>\n

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How do Quaker Meetings do Outreach and Welcome Newcomers?<\/a>
\n<\/b>QuakerSpeak<\/b><\/p>\n

This summer we traveled to New England Yearly Meeting and asked Quakers from all over the region: how does your meeting do outreach? How do you welcome newcomers?<\/span><\/i><\/i><\/p>\n

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Serving Outside the Quaker Community <\/b><\/a>QuakerSpeak<\/b><\/p>\n

I am very, very happy to know that where I worship speaks to many, many aspects of a community that is in need, that is in harm\u2019s way, who are threatened, and that\u2019s just how we put our faith in action.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Oxford Meeting Quaker and Answer<\/b><\/a>
\nLuke Young<\/b><\/p>\n

Luke Young is currently completing his PhD in English at Oriel College. He works on literary style and political thought in the Twentieth Century essay.<\/p>\n

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

Loving care is not something that those sound in mind and body \u2018do\u2019 for others but a process that binds us together.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 527 \u2022 March 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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