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\"\"<\/a>May 2023 Forty-Three Narrated Version<\/a>
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For this month, we are trying an experiment with a narrated version of Forty-Three.<\/p>\n

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Friends’ Fellowship of Healing<\/a>
\n<\/b>Yvonne Dixon<\/b><\/p>\n

A revival of the Friends\u2019 Fellowship of Healing (FFH) meetings.<\/p>\n

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Artweeks Exhibition at the Meeting House<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Rebecca Howard<\/b><\/p>\n

We are looking forward to a week which will enable us to combine showing our artwork and doing some light touch outreach for the Meeting.<\/p>\n

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Redressing Inequalities<\/a>
\n<\/b>Carol Saker<\/b><\/p>\n

The theme for the day was \u201cAcknowledging the impact of the slave<\/em> trade, colonialism and economic exploitation on the lives of many today; what should and can, we do?<\/em>\u201d Several from Oxford attended.<\/p>\n

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Book Review: Passengers: True Stories of the Underground Railroad by William Still <\/strong><\/a>Jean Moir<\/b><\/p>\n

William Still (1821 \u2013 1902) was a leading light in the Underground Railroad which helped runaway slaves reach the Northern States safely and find work and lodgings.<\/p>\n

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Hope’s Work<\/a>
\n<\/strong>David Gee<\/b><\/p>\n

The Quaker movement has strived from the first to face the world as it is \u2013 in care, thoughtfulness, and faith.<\/p>\n

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Report on St Hilda\u2019s College Chaplaincy<\/a>
\n<\/strong><\/b>Meryem Kalayci<\/strong><\/p>\n

Background Paper for Meeting for Business for Worship on 3 April 2023<\/p>\n

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Monthly Appeal May 2023<\/a>
\n<\/b>Charles Worth<\/b><\/p>\n

Oxford Meeting\u2019s Quaker charity for April is Refugee Resource.<\/p>\n

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Lately<\/strong><\/a>
\nStephen Yeo<\/b><\/p>\n

Jenny Lewis and Stephen Yeo warmly invite you to Oxford Quaker Meeting House to launch Stephen’s first poetry collection: Lately<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Epistle – Junior Yearly Meeting 2023<\/a>
\nQuakers in Britain<\/b><\/p>\n

Eve Park and Olwyn Lewis-Bowen, Clerks of Junior Yearly Meeting, read the letter from Junior Yearly Meeting to “all Friends everywhere”.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Connecting to Quaker Faith Through Film<\/a>
\n<\/b>Martin Krafft
\nQuakerSpeak<\/b><\/p>\n

I think being a good artist, you never know– whenever you start a project you never know what it’s going to turn out as, and if you do know it’s going to be bad because you’re not engaging in active discovery.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Quaker Question and Answer<\/b><\/a>
\nCharles Worth<\/b><\/p>\n

Londoner, son of Anglican priest and ecumenical mother. Teacher, educator, learner. Husband, father, grandfather<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>From Quaker Faith & Practice 12.03<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

With our structure, we risk failures in understanding and transmitting our tradition, and failures in pastoral care. <\/em><\/p>\n

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

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This Month’s Forty-Three Newsletter Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n