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Quakers add voice to concerns over portrayal of the poor
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Quakers set for #bym13
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Bad Boys access Friends House restaurant
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Nayler podcast #15
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1944 – Man, Society and Religion
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Nicholas Rundle:
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Mike J:
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Archive for the ‘Focus’ Category
UK failing women in prison
A new report has highlighted that “self-harm rates remain shockingly high across the female prison estate and reoffending rates are staggering, especially for women receiving short custodial sentences. A change in attitude is needed in how women are dealt with in the criminal justice system. Diverting women away from custodial settings and investing in those women who do need to be held in prison is [...]
Not a paradise
The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality by Mark McCormack, a review By Stephen Cox An old gay campaigning slogan was “Gay Liberation is Everyone’s Liberation”. The theory went that in a society that was not hostile to male homosexuality, and which did not use fear of homosexuality and [...]
Pushing sometimes
by Stephen Cox A review of Pushing at the frontiers of change: A memoir of Quaker involvement with homosexuality by David Blamires and published by Quaker Books David writes that “it is a little odd being a historian of your own life…” This book sets out how Quakers moved from having little particularly interesting to [...]
Christians seek answers from cathedral authorities
Five Christians, who were forcibly removed from the steps of saint Paul’s cathedral in London as they prayed during the eviction of the Occupy London camp, have today delivered a letter to the canon pastor of the cathedral, Michael Colclough. In the letter they ask the cathedral authorities to clarify whether they gave the police [...]
Quakers’ Occupy LSX epistle
At Meeting for Worship for Business today we agreed to continue to meet on the steps of St.Pauls but from now on will be meeting on SATURDAYS at 1pm before the Occupy General Assembly. An Epistle was agreed as follows Epistle from the Quaker Meeting for Worship at Occupy the London Stock Exchange. 4th March [...]
The good news story of Aref Sameer Chbieteh
At 25 years of age, he has spent nearly a quarter of his life in prison. Despite his tender age, he has the look of a man who has already seen too much. Sat in a plastic garden chair Aref looks into the near distance as he answers our questions. Surrounding him are his friends [...]
Quakers back Occupy ring of prayer
The Quaker Meeting for Worship at Occupy LSX outside the cathedral of saint Paul has produced a minute backing the “ring of prayer” if the Occupy camp is evicted. The ring of prayer was first mooted in 10/2011 but an initiative this month from Christianity Uncut, a group of Christians campaigning against government cuts, gives [...]
Quakers & Occupy: UK summary
Quakers in Sheffield have been giving practical support to their local Occupy group including access to their toilets and kitchen for washing up. (See this Nayler post.) In Norfolk, Quakers agreed to give financial and practical support to Occupy Norwich, after hearing about the group at their Area Meeting for business. They were informed by [...]
Sheffield Quakers support Occupy
Sheffield Quakers have made more than a statement of support with their local Occupy movement – they’re offering practical support too. “We’re getting a lot of support from Quakers in Sheffield,” an Occupy Sheffield activist told Nayler. “Some are working at the camp and wonderfully, the Meeting House is only a few yards away and [...]
Is it kosher to boycott?
By Robert Cohen The story so far… So, the Palestinians have failed in their attempt to gain full statehood recognition through the UN Security Council. Even if they had achieved the nine votes required, we know that the United States would have used its veto to turn the win into only a moral victory. [...]