Category: Quaker A-Z
Quaker A-Z is our year-long blog series posted fortnightly. Brief snippets of information presented – you guessed it – from A through to Z!
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Quaker A-Z: O is for Openness
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. O is for Openness Qf&P 20.20 For a Quaker, religion is not an external activity, concerning a special ‘holy’ part of the self. It is an openness to the world in the here and now with the whole of the
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Quaker A-Z: N is for nonsensical Notices
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. N is for Nonsensical Notices It is always sensible to ask someone else to read your notice before putting it up. Just to check that it means the same to someone else – as it did in your head. To
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Quaker A-Z: M is for Measuring & Management
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. M is for measuring Increasing productivity or income, decreasing waste and carbon all sound good but how can you tell if the plans you’ve so carefully made are working? Keeping a record of measurements can help you decide if that
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Quaker A-Z: L is for Lead & Lighting
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. L is for Lead Many meeting houses have lead on their roofs or windows – even those who have a tiled or thatch roof may have flashing as can be seen on the porch above. Sadly this has become a
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Quaker A-Z: K is for Knowledge & Know-how
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. K is for Knowledge & Know-how “Learning the Knowledge” or the 25000 streets in central London that a taxi driver must be able to recognise to gain their license has been shown to result in a visibly bigger hippocampus. Whilst
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Quaker A-Z: J is for Joining the Dots
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. J is for Joining the Dots In the last post I talked about how so many of the jobs done both in the meeting house and across the country in each meeting house have similarities. Each meeting will have their
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Quaker A-Z: I is for Interconnected Icebergs
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. I is for Interconnected Icebergs Originally this post was going to be titled I is for Interconnections, but I couldn’t resist using the SWM iceberg shown above. Thanks to John Dash for permission. Six Weeks Meeting owns all of the
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Quaker A-Z: H is for Hirers & Hospitality
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. H is for Hirers & Hospitality Hirers are often mentioned in conjunction of, ‘how to increase the number you have’ or to complain about ‘what they do or don’t do’. Whilst I supply information on how to market your meeting
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Quaker A-Z: G is for gifts
This post is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Qf&P 3.22 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in
