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These are some notes (greatly expanded notes!) written for some prepared ministry that I was invited to give on the topic of “Spirituality” at my local Meeting on World Quaker day 2024. Note that I’m in Membership of Britain YM and these notes reflect that context. A slightly abridged version appeared in the Friend on…
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An edited version of this piece appeared in the 2 July 2020 edition of the Friend. My boss and I were waiting in a client’s reception. On a TV showing rolling news came a piece reporting the shutdown of CERN for an upgrade. My boss sighed, ‘All that money, and for what?’ I said, ‘Well,…
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An edited version of this piece was published in the Friend on 10 November 2022, in response to an article in the 27 October edition. There is a road on the estate where my parent’s care home is called ‘Meetinghouse Lane’. They can’t remember whether or not there ever was a Meetinghouse. Maybe it’s become one…
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An edited version of this piece appeared in `the Friend’ of 22 February 2024 (login required) As a Quaker I find myself reluctant to embrace the term ‘war crime’. It invites us to sometimes say: but this is only war, not a crime. Twelve Friends declared for the information of Charles Stuart (called King) in…
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