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Can We Have Biscuits Now? Love Requires It’ Rhiannon Grant on Nontheism 23 Aug 19/8/19 14:52 Page 1 the23 August 2019 |Friend £2.00 ‘Can we have biscuits now? Love requires it’ Rhiannon Grant on nontheism 23 Aug 19/8/19 14:52 Page 1 Final call Please respond by 30 August the INDEPENDENTFriend QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 23 August 2019 | Volume 177, No 34 www.thefriend.org News 4 Brighton, BYM, Peterloo, and more Rebecca Hardy Letters 6 Poetry 8 The last days Sam Donaldson Thought for the week 9 Ideas about discernment Rhiannon Grant Origen 10 Mysticism and sustainability Martyn Kelly Friends in Florence 12 A fledgling Meeting Kirsten Hills A teenage visit 14 Thinking about knife crime Tony D’Souza From the stillness 15 Insights into Meeting for Worship Alan Johnson Review 16 Sweetness of Unity Sue Glover Frykman Friends & Meetings 17 What kind of approach to the Bible leads to that discovery? An intelligent analytical and critical approach has its rightful place. We then stand over the Bible as subjects investigating an object. An inversion of this subject–object relationship is, however, possible. We then approach the Bible not mainly to criticise, but to listen; not merely to question, but to be challenged, and to open our lives penitentially both to its judgments and to its liberating gospel. George Boobyer, 1988 Quaker faith & practice 27.30 News [email protected] Meeting pulls MP ‘We cancelled because talk amid threats of those we rely on for our violence security – the police and Brighton Meeting House our private security firms was the third venue in – had both told us they less than a week to cancel couldn’t guarantee there would be no violence if an event with MP Chris Part of the human chain in Manchester. Photo: Rob Phillips. Williamson after they were we allowed the meeting to go ahead. We also had an warned that there may precious.’ email from Friends House Inquiry is not limited be violence. The Derby Several people thanked discouraging us because to any time, nor is it in North MP was suspended Quakers in Britain for they were already getting a response to any specific from the Labour Party the decision, with one in February for claiming lot of negative comments situation.’ tweeting: ‘Thank you for Paul Parker said: ‘We are that Labour had been ‘too on Twitter about hosting ensuring that your Meeting apologetic’ in the party’s the event.’ committed to making sure House continues to stand Quaker communities are anti-Semitism row. She added that the issue for love, tolerance and Penny Cloutte, from highlighted the difficulties safe and inclusive places, spirituality.’ for all ages. We look Brighton Meeting, told Friends experienced in Brighton Quakers the Friend that when the negotiating bookings: ‘We forward to using IICSA’s tweeted on 12 August: findings to improve talk was first proposed, found that we had landed ‘We know there have been after ‘careful thinking’, in the midst of a bitter fight safeguarding in Quaker strong feelings aroused Meetings.’ the Meeting decided to between the left and right regarding the booking go ahead with the event of the Labour Party and the and cancellation of a talk because of ‘freedom of differing, highly charged by Chris Wiliamson MP. ‘Human chain’ for speech’. However, before perspectives on the conflict We have not had time to Peterloo massacre the talk on socialism and in the Middle East.’ consider this as a whole Around 150 people inequality on 8 August, Quakers in Britain Quaker community in showed the power of silent the police contacted the tweeted that the event Brighton and will respond action with a ‘human Meeting to tell them that had been cancelled on more thoroughly once we chain’ around the wall of a previous venue had 8 August: ‘Quakers in have done so.’ the Central Manchester cancelled the event due Britain recognise that Meeting House to to violent threats. The anti-Semitism is a real and BYM on IICSA commemorate the 200th talk was also pulled at growing problem in the The Independent Inquiry anniversary of the Peterloo Brighthelm Church and UK and globally. Anti- into Child Sexual Abuse massacre. According to Community Centre, after Semitism, as with all forms (IICSA) has begun a new Manchester Friends, part Labour MP for Hove Peter of racism, contravenes our investigation into child of the wall surrounding Kyle intervened. fundamental belief that protection in religious the Meeting house was Penny Cloutte said: all people are equal and organisations and settings. standing in 1819 when Britain Yearly Meeting the massacre happened, (BYM) has been asked, during which peaceful WORDS with other denominations, protestors were crushed to provide evidence for the against it by the military. Inquiry. A spokesperson Anthony Froggett, ‘Visitors often say the told the Friend that Paul co-clerk of Central Parker, recording clerk for Manchester Meeting, told BYM, will shortly be in the Friend that people Meeting house is an touch with Area Meeting formed the ‘human chain’ clerks and safeguarding on 18 August by holding oasis of calm.’ coordinators: ‘This new hands and encircling phase in the ongoing the Meeting house to Sue Proudlove, manager of Venue 40 – what the inquiry is preparing for a symbolise ‘the strength city’s central Meeting house becomes during public hearing in March of people when they are the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. 2020. The scope of the united in peaceful protest’. 4 the Friend 23 August 2019 Protestors removed A Quaker from NUMBERS from Pride Guildford Meeting Quakers supported a tweeted: ‘So @ group of LGBTQ+ people PrideInSurrey said they who were removed from would only exclude a Pride event in Surrey protesters for “hateful this month for protesting and/or bigoted” speech 11 against the event’s but turns out they’ll just The average percentage increase in the cost of sponsors BAE Systems. exclude whoever they want cremation at council-run crematoriums since 2015. The attenders carrying for saying something they anti-BAE banners said don’t like.’ they were thrown out of Mace, both from Down to that it included three the event in Woking Park Funeral debt on BBC Earth, also spoke on the Quaker COs: ‘Andrew on 10 August. However, A woman who was radio. The former talked White, a company the organisers are reported supported by Quaker on BBC5 Live about the secretary, was an absolutist; in the SurreyLive online Social Action’s (QSA’s) importance of ratings for Donald Gray, Friends’ newspaper as denying ‘Down to Earth’ funeral directors, and the Ambulance Unit (FAU) the protestors entered the programme spoke on a latter was interviewed on and Royal Naval Volunteer venue. Stephen Ireland, BBC news programme this TalkRadio about funeral Reserve (RNVR), became founder of Pride in Surrey, month about her struggle poverty. head-master of Bootham said the group ‘did not with funeral debt following school. Jack Hamilton, enter the venue’ and that her brother’s death. FAU, became a civil none of his committee was Teresa Samuel told Quakers at the Fringe The Quaker singer- engineer and as the approached or initially journalist Victoria songwriter Majk Stokes senior resident engineer aware of the incident. Derbyshire on her performed new material responsible for the Stephen Ireland said: eponymous news building of the Forth Road at the Edinburgh Meeting ‘Three to four individuals programme how spiralling Bridge,’ he said. Quakers House, when, for its thirty- thought it would be okay cremation costs pushed and the Edinburgh Peace first year, the building to litter the queue line her deeper into the red. and Justice Centre held a became Venue 40 for the with leaflets, holding some Highlighting the problem workshop where visitors Edinburgh Fringe Festival. makeshift cardboard signs, of soaring funeral costs, could make their own they did not enter the which QSA has long been In addition to his origami ‘peace cranes’. venue and had upset some campaigning against, she humorous show, Make They will be added to of the community in the said: ‘I was left with a bill Tea, not War, the venue an exhibition of 140,000 queue line by challenging of over £4,000, which I hosted a programme of cranes marking the the real reasons we were could not afford.’ events, which, according dropping of the nuclear doing Pride… No member The interview on 9 to manager Sue Proudlove, bombs on Hiroshima and of this group asked August was featured just were selected to reflect Nagasaki at the end of to speak with me or a days before new data Quaker testimonies. ‘We world war two. member of our committee.’ was released that showed try to offer a programme Other events at Venue 40 However, the Peace what QSA describes as that springs from our included new drama Keep Pledge Union (PPU) said ‘a dramatic variation in Quaker values of peace, Your Chin Up, based on four people were removed cremation costs at council- sustainability, truth and war-time letters between and the incident was an run crematoriums across equality, but which also wife and husband in world ‘outrageous assault on free the UK, and an eleven per reflects our sense of fun,’ war two, and Little Rabbit, expression and all that cent average overall price she said, adding: ‘Visitors a dark contemporary fairy Pride stands for’. rise since 2015’. often say the Meeting story. The French company Symon Hill, campaigns The Quaker charity also house is an oasis of calm Piccolo Teatro Nexonnais manager for PPU, told welcomed changes in the in the middle of the busy- performed ‘The Rime of the Friend that the claims application process for the ness of the Fringe.’ the Ancient Mariner’, while by the organiser were Funeral Expenses Payment This theme of peace ran Newbury Youth Theatre ‘untrue’.
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