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'Quaker Values Can Be Part of Our Political Life' Tania Mathias And the13 December 2019 Friend | £2.00 ‘Quaker values can be part of our political life’ Tania Mathias and Jessica Metheringham 13 Dec 9/12/19 15:27 Page 1 the Friends Quarterly Comments received on issue four 2019 “What a humdinger of an issue” “...heartfelt thanks for this wonderful edition... so inspiring and profound... I am so grateful for this spiritual tonic!” • Carrie Comfort - Pilgrimage walk • Felicity Kaal - My life - a perspective • Alastair McIntosh - Third Millenium Christianity and Quakerism • Peter Bevan - The Quaker active conscience Issue four 2019 free to new subscribers* at £20pa UK; £22pa overseas. Cheques to ‘The Friend.’ £4 discount for subscribers to the Friend (please call 020 7663 1178 to claim). 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FQ 4/19 the INDEPENDENTFriend QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 13 December 2019 | Volume 177, No 50 www.thefriend.org News 4 Prayer, Penzance, peace pole, and more Rebecca Hardy Meeting for Sufferings 6 Young Friends and Central Committees Joseph Jones & Harry Albright Letters 8 How should we vote? 10 Avoiding the Trump playbook Jessica Metheringham The freedom of choice 13 Conservative values Tania Mathias The God of broad places 14 Christian Quakerism Mark Russ Q Eye: a look at the Quaker world 16 Poem 17 Yud, Hay, Vav, Hay Jonathan Wooding Friends & Meetings 18 We commit ourselves to learning again the spiritual value of each other. We find ourselves utterly at odds with the priorities in our society which deny the full human potential of millions of people in this country. That denial diminishes us all. There must be no ‘them’ and ‘us’. From the public statement made at London Yearly Meeting 22–25 May 1987, ahead of that year’s general election Quaker faith & practice 23.20 and girls, and concluded and girls is rooted News on 10 December, Human in centuries of male Rights Day. domination. Let us not [email protected] Quakers in County forget that the gender Durham said they chose inequalities that fuel rape to illuminate the Meeting culture are essentially house in orange to fit a question of power New Holocaust so that compassion can the 2019 theme for the imbalances.’ Memorial Day prayer prevail over hatred, and day ‘Orange the World: According to the Christian, Muslim and respect over intolerance in Generation Equality UN, certain women are Jewish faith leaders have our society.’ Stands Against Rape’. particularly vulnerable, created a prayer for the Chief Rabbi Ephraim This year’s focus was such as: young girls and seventy-fifth anniversary Mirvis described the prayer on rape. However, the older women; LGBT+ of the liberation of as ‘a sincere call to each organisers pointed out women; migrants and Auschwitz-Birkenau. of us to bring a little more that violence against refugees; indigenous The prayer for Holocaust light into the world’. women can manifest in women and ethnic Memorial Day (HMD) Friends said that the ways such as: intimate minorities; women and 2020 echoes its theme of prayer echoes Saint partner violence (physical girls living with HIV and ‘Stand Together’, which Francis’s words quoted by and psychological); sexual disabilities; or through encourages communities to Paul Parker, recording clerk violence and harassment; humanitarian crises. unite to prevent the spread of Britain Yearly Meeting human trafficking; female Experts say that a key of hate and division. for last year’s HMD: genital mutilation; and driver of domestic violence The Archbishop of ‘Where there is hatred, we child marriage. One Friend is economic inequality. Canterbury, the Chief must sow the seeds of love, from another Meeting who Two women a week are Rabbi and the Senior Imam reconciliation and peace.’ wished to stay anonymous killed by a current or at the Makkah Mosque The prayer has been told the Friend that she former partner in England launched the prayer, which developed in partnership thought Quakers could do and Wales alone. is intended to be used with HMD Trust. more to raise awareness by people of any faith of the issue. She said: ‘My Penzance Citizens’ gathering to mark the day Darlington Meeting impression is many regard Panel could be ‘start of on 27 January. House goes orange it as a fight that has already something new’ Imam Qari Asim, Senior Darlington Friends lit up been won in this country – Bring back Sure Start, Imam at the Makkah their Meeting house in when it hasn’t.’ charge double council Mosque in Leeds, said: orange last month to mark According to UN News: tax for second homes ‘Our society is becoming the UN’s International ‘A third of all women and and end the five-week increasingly polarised Day for the Elimination girls experience physical wait for first payment for and respect for difference of Violence Against or sexual violence in their Universal Credit. These appears to be declining. Women. The day, on 25 lifetime, half of women are just some of the key It is therefore critically November, started sixteen killed worldwide were recommendations made important that Holocaust days of activism aimed at killed by their partners by the Penzance Citizens’ Memorial Day is marked preventing and eliminating or family, and violence Panel, which was set up by all and lessons are learnt violence against women perpetrated against women by a Quaker to debate the is as common a cause of housing problem. death and incapacity for Gavin Barker, from those of reproductive age WORDS Truro Meeting, and as cancer, and a greater project manager of the cause of ill health than initiative, told the Friend road accidents and malaria that the process had ‘a ‘[People can] debate combined.’ striking familiarity with UN secretary-general Quaker practices’. He António Guterres said said: ‘The five evening difficult issues… in his message to mark sessions spread over six the day that the statistics weeks were, in many given a safe space, mean ‘someone around respects, an extended you… a family member, form of Meeting for key information and a co-worker, a friend, or Learning. Panel members even you yourself’ has equipped themselves with experienced this type of key information and a sufficient time.’ abuse. He added: ‘Sexual deeper understanding Quaker Gavin Barker on the Penzance Citizens’ Panel. violence against women of issues to do with 4 the Friend 13 December 2019 housing, homelessness Tax on all second homes NUMBERS and low pay by listening and holiday lets. to nine expert speakers. Gavin Barker said that These included Citizens the process showed that ‘in Advice, the Breadline an age of highly polarised project, a trade union rep, and often brutal political and the CEO of a social debate, people can come 7.6 housing association. They together and debate The percentage by which global emissions must fall also [quizzed] elected difficult issues in an adult every year until 2030, according to a new UN report. representatives, [such manner – provided they as] Andrew Mitchell, the are given a safe space, key residents,’ she said.. Cornwall Council cabinet information and sufficient Police should be She added: ‘It is also member for housing. We time… My hope is that ‘largest human rights close to Dallas Road also hope to meet our new this is the beginning of profession’, says QCEA Primary School and MP in the new year.’ something new. We badly The Quaker Council for Lancaster Girls’ Grammar The first of the proposals need to find a way of European Affairs (QCEA) School, which have also submitted to the local bringing people together has released a new booklet been involved. We had to councils – to address street and doing politics in a way arguing that policing conduct house-to-house homelessness – comes with that heals divisions rather should be reframed so it surveys, as well as doing than exploits them. Friends aspires to be ‘the largest other recommendations assemblies in the primary such as: restoring grant have a real role to play.’ human rights profession’ school about peace, upholding the rights of money; providing more which the children really mobile and fixed night Lancaster Peace Pole everyone. In the booklet engaged with. It took us Framing Human Policing: shelters and warden- ‘opens new avenues’ about eighteen months to supported accommodation The ‘Peace Pole’ unveiled Towards a more just public go through all the hoops, service QCEA makes the for young single people, by Lancaster Friends because it’s in a public as well as more early this autumn has ‘opened case that ‘twenty-first space and we had to have century policing should… intervention mental new avenues’ within the planning permission.’ health support; and more community, according be backed up by policies Two hundred people which emphasise the emergency accommodation to local Quakers. Ann came to an inauguration for families. Morgan, clerk of Lancaster universal protections we all ceremony on 30 October, enjoy’. The other key proposals Meeting, told the Friend featuring peace songs and – out of twenty-one – that the 2.5-metre oak pole Writing on the QCEA silence. Some seventy website, Martin Leng include: a £10 per hour installed on 23 October has schoolchildren attended, as minimum wage; restoring built bridges with the local argues that, despite the well as thirty refugees and fact that ‘European Sure Start centres; Muslim community and asylum seekers. implementing a large-scale nearby schools. governments and The pole is inscribed institutions have framed social housing building ‘It’s been a very with the words ‘May Peace programme in Cornwall; interesting exercise and policing in ways which Prevail on Earth’ in English align to the broader values reviewing Universal Credit has created a closer and three other languages.
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