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Quaker specific content, theology, worship, training, community, both relating to Britain Yearly Meeting and the wider Quaker family.

  • Quaker A-Z: X is for eX-hibitions

    Quaker A-Z: X is for eX-hibitions

    X is for eXhibition Earlier this week I went into Friends House specifically to visit this exhibition – and thoroughly enjoyed it. Gorgeous colours and textures shown off beautifully in the space, the sound track enhanced the art as you moved around the exhibit. There were several Ffriendly faces that I recognised, but there were

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  • Quaker A-Z: S is for Safeguarding

    Quaker A-Z: S is for Safeguarding

     A&Q 18 How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the things which are eternal, bear the burden of each other’s failings and pray for one another. As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows

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  • Quaker A-Z: O is for Openness

    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: K is for Knowledge & Know-how

    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

    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: G is for gifts

    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

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  • Political Policies

    Political Policies

    Doubtful Votes from Coventry Council on Flickr Advice & Query 34 Remember your responsibilities as a citizen for the conduct of local, national, and international affairs. Do not shrink from the time and effort your involvement may demand. You may have heard there is a General Election on the near horizon… There are Quakers standing

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  • Quaker A-Z: Y is for Young and Young at Heart

    Quaker A-Z: Y is for Young and Young at Heart

    This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. Y is for Young and Young-at-Heart A meeting should reflect the community surrounding it – and it should ideally be an all age community. A&Q 18 says: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted

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  • Quaker A-Z: W is for Woodbrooke & Websites

    Quaker A-Z: W is for Woodbrooke & Websites

    This is part of the Quaker Alphabet Project – click here for more information. W is for Woodbrooke I should start this with an acknowledgement that Woodbrooke is one of my favourite places – I have been lucky enough to learn and teach there. Life Artistry, the spiritual scrapbooking course I developed, has been taught there

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