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Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Discover the contemporary Quaker way with The Friend the only Quaker weekly journal in the world! - The Friend email addresses - We are aware of problems with our email and are working to fix them.
Quaker Centre opens
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Quaker Week saw the official opening of the Quaker Centre at Friends House, London.
Sheila Hancock in conversation with Geoffrey Durham
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Sheila Hancock does not mince her words.
Tragedy hits Philippines Friends
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Earlier this year, Nancy Irving, general secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC), and I visited the Philippines Evangelical Friends Church to help celebrate their thirty-first anniversary.
Same-sex marriage: the work begins
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50The long journey to bring Yearly Meetings historic decision on same-sex marriage to fruition has begun.
Resolution takes over Friends Provident
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Controversial proposals by Resolution Life (RSL) to take over Friends Provident (FP) were accepted by the latters shareholders on Monday.
Meeting for Sufferings news
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Budget 2010 - A warning that centrally managed work will need to dip into current reserves next year came from the clerk of Finance and Property Central Committee.
Hospice workers for the world or midwives to a new one?
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Nearly 350 people the majority of them Quakers spent a gloriously sunny Saturday in the Large Meeting house at Friends House on 26 September, pondering some really tough issues.
London Meetings funding gap
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Friends, we are living beyond our means.
Remembering the grief and desire for peace
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50I encourage Robin Waterston (25 September) to lay a wreath.
The long arms of the law
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Its happening very gradually, but arms companies in the UK are learning that they can no longer expect to have it all their own way.
Letters
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50I am a Quaker - I believe in God, the Light Within, through which we respond to beauty and sublimity in nature or art or to suffering and need among creatures; the power and presence that has evolved with us and is an essential constituent of our human nature.
Reconciliation wins
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50From a Clear Blue Sky by Timothy Knatchbull.
Sanctuary for strangers
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50Becoming a City of Sanctuary: a practical guide with inspiring examples by Craig Barnett and Inderjit Bhogal.
A Christian response to climate change
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50When a self-declared non-believer suggests that we may need faith and belief in God in our efforts to combat global warming, it makes me grateful that were being spared another tirade from Richard Dawkins, the high priest of the new atheists.
Q-eye: a Quaker look at the world
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 09:50And is there still honey for tea? - How we all love bees! Even the prospect of being stung doesnt dampen enthusiasm for such noble creatures, and because of their current plight, many more people are being made aware of their value to humans.
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