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  • Has Quakerism a Message to the World to-day?

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    J. W. Rowntree at Manchester The Report on the 1895 Manchester Conference seems not to be online anywhere, which is surprising and a shame, as the Conference is widely understood to be one of the turning points in the history of the Society of Friends. It was where a new generation of Friends, keen to…

  • Letter from 2052

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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…