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5 reasons to be a Quaker in 2022

Updated 4 January 2022

Have you ever been asked why you're a Quaker? Often I find my mind goes blank when I'm put on the spot. So I had a think, and came up with five reasons I continue to be a Quaker:

5 reasons to be a Quaker in 2022

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5 ways to make Quaker meeting houses work for the future

Updated 27 September 2018

I'm always a bit anxious when we spend time worrying about Quaker property. Early Quaker George Fox was disparaging about 'steeple houses'. In his radical vision, going to a physical church was not necessary to experience God. Really it's the community that makes up the church, not the premises it meets in.

5 ways to make Quaker meeting houses work for the future

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5 things we can do to put Quaker values into Brexit

Updated 16 December 2019

What can members of a faith group committed to peace, equality, integrity and sustainability do to put those values into a post-Brexit Britain? Quite a lot, it turns out. Here are five things that Quakers and those who share Quaker values can do to shape politics in the run-up to the UK's withdrawal from the EU.

5 ways to put Quaker values into Brexit

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How to heal divided communities: 5 tips from East African peace campaigners

Updated 23 January 2020

Quakers in Britain support small East African peace organisations to train community peacebuilders. I take a look at what we can learn from their achievements.

How to heal divided communities: 5 tips from East African peace campaigners

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5 ways to support women in immigration detention this International Women’s Day

Created 7 March 2018

Earlier this year I celebrated the centenary of women's right to vote in the UK. I remembered, though, that not all UK women had that right even after 1918. Worse, the state continues to ignore the human rights of many women in the UK today.

5 ways to support women in immigration detention this International Women’s Day

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Tackling the climate emergency: what can councils do?

Updated 16 August 2021

An immense shift is taking place. In less than a year more than half the UK's local authorities have declared a 'climate emergency'.

Tackling the climate emergency: what can councils do?

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By popular demand: even more Quakers in fiction!

Updated 4 March 2020

When I wrote a blog post about Quakers in fiction, I was happily deluged with emails from readers who had come across Quakers elsewhere in their literary adventures. There were some wonderfully esoteric titles – for example the (sadly now out-of-print) Colin Writes to Friends House (1934) by Elfrida Vipont – and plenty of interesting observations.

By popular demand: even more Quakers in fiction!

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How to support the anti-DSEI arms fair actions from afar

Updated 6 September 2023

In September, hundreds of Quakers will descend upon the London borough of Newham to protest the set-up of the DSEI arms fair. DSEI 2021 featured over 1,600 exhibitors, including most of the biggest arms companies. This year is set to be no different.

How to support the anti-DSEI arms fair actions from afar

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9 voices the Department for Education would ban from schools

Updated 8 October 2020

Recent Department for Education guidance tells headteachers in England to ensure external organisations, speakers and resources do not take "extremist" stances. These include a stated desire to abolish capitalism and "a failure to condemn illegal activities done in support of their cause". The guidance also bans "victim narratives that are harmful to British society".

9 voices the Department for Education would ban from schools

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8 things you may not know about the right to vote

Updated 6 February 2018

Today, 6 February 2018, marks 100 years since the Representation of the People Act was granted Royal Assent and became law. It was a landmark piece of legislation. For the first time, women were explicitly included in the franchise for national elections. Many Quakers were involved in long-standing universal suffrage movements including Anne Knight, Alice Clark, Emily Ford, Hilda Clark, Helen Sturge and Edith Pye.

8 things you may not know about the right to vote