{"id":436,"date":"2021-03-18T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=436"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:35:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:35:38","slug":"january-meeting-of-the-oxford-council-of-faiths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/february-2021-vol-502\/january-meeting-of-the-oxford-council-of-faiths\/","title":{"rendered":"January Meeting of the\u00a0Oxford Council of Faiths\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Seebohm<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As a new recruit to the Meeting\u2019s Ecumenical and Interfaith Team, I went along to the January Zoom meeting of the Oxford Council of Faiths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We talked about the March 2021 Census and how to get isolated minorities into it \u2013 it is of course compulsory, and necessary for securing Local Authority funding. We noted that Holocaust Memorial Day is\/was 27 January. We hoped that the Ashmolean would go ahead with faith-based displays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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College Web Photo by Trio Watson, provided by Richard Seebohm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our keynote speaker was Meryem Kalayci, the newly appointed Chaplain at St Hilda\u2019s College. She is a Quaker, now in our Meeting. Her father comes from a city on the Turkish-Syrian border where there was a strong Quaker presence before and during the First World War. Her appointment, she says, is owed to the Quaker testimonies. She will not be conducting services, but her watchword is service. The College has lost its chapel to redevelopment, and instead has a multi-faith sanctuary space. Meryem still has a History Faculty post researching the Armenian genocide \u2013 with a focus on silence as a vehicle for remembrance as well as forgetting. Before being exiled from Turkey she was a resource for Syrian refugees. She has been appointed a chaplain at Bullingdon Prison. Her College web photo is by Trio Watson.<\/p>\n

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Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 502 \u2022 February 2021
\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting
\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n

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