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Low Carbon? Let's Be Realistic! 28 February 2014 £1.70 the DISCOVER THE CONTEMPORARYFriend QUAKER WAY Low carbon? Let’s be realistic! the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843 CONTENTS VOL 172 NO 9 3 Thought for the Week: Meeting for Worship at North Gate, Faslane Naval Base John Anderson 4-5 News 6 Fair and sustainable? Sister Gina 7 Faith and practice Stephen Petter 8-9 Letters 10-11 Body, mind and soul Clive Ashwin 12-13 Sustainability series: Low carbon? Let’s be realistic! Gill Westcott 14 Poem: Pilgrimage Mike Farley 16 q-eye: a look at the Quaker world in Britain. (Quakers) Society Meeting of the Religious Friends Yearly The © 2014 See story page 4. 17 Friends & Meetings Cover image: High winds and waves on Penarth seafront on 3 February 2014. Photo: Ben Salter / flickr CC. See pages 12-13. 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Three small streams, toppling over rocks, Improvise tranquil cadences While a scrum of compact birch Crowd to the tree line Whence swells the heather hill. High above all, a pair of buzzards With wings outstretched, Bank and turn, Bank and turn on the jostling wind Making effortless altitude. On this side we sit in silence Tight against the fence, Cramped in between opposing worlds. Beyond the razor wire, the cameras and dogs Labyrinthine concrete Hems in the drear and dead end jobs Of this death factory. And fear ferments here: For out beyond the horizon, Far out, Deep down, Deep down beneath the innocent waves, There lurks, in the silent black, A primal annihilation. John Anderson Taunton Meeting the Friend, 28 February 2014 3 News The Winchester Whisperer A FRagilE histoRical document written on toilet paper and housed in the library of Friends House was featured this week in a new BBC world war one project. The Winchester Whisperer was a newsletter written by conscientious objectors in Winchester Prison. The story behind the secret newsletter is told as part of a season of BBC programmes that looks at the impact of world war one on life in the UK. The Winchester Whisperer was written on sheets of toilet paper and handed around the prison by conscientious objectors. It contained articles, sketches and poetry submitted by inmates to the editor. Inmates used ink from their regular allocation © 2014 The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Meeting of the Religious Yearly The © 2014 in Britain. (Quakers) Society of Friends that they had saved in thimbles sealed within blocks of wax. The end of a needle was used to apply William Graham, a prominent Quaker who wrote one ink to the sheets. These were then bound together with of the standard books Conscription and conscience: a the canvas from mailbags. history 1916-1919.’ Prison warders were unable to locate any copies of Due to its fragility the copy is rarely brought out but The Winchester Whisperer. The only surviving edition researchers from BBC South were allowed to see the is housed in the library at Friends House in London. manuscript for the making of World War One At Home, David Blake, head of library and archives at Friends a series of 1,400 stories gathered from around the UK House, said: ‘It’s an amazing document – the effort that broadcast on regional TV and local radio from 24 to 28 has gone into it, the skill that is there. The Winchester February. Details of the programmes are available on Whisperer gives us a remarkable insight into the lives the BBC website. The Winchester Whisperer story will of conscientious objectors in prison during world war feature on BBC Radio Solent and on BBC South Today one. The document came to us from the widow of John on Thursday 27 February. Fairtrade Fortnight highlights ‘banana wars’ FAIRTRADE FORtnight, which this year runs between 24 February and 9 March, will highlight the struggle of banana farmers around the world. Bananas, along with shopping basket staples such as bread and milk, have become a battleground on which the big four supermarkets – Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys and Morrisons – compete for market share. The typical retail price of loose bananas in Britain is sixty-eight pence per kilo. In 2002 it was £1.10 per kilo. The Fairtrade Foundation is running a Make Bananas Fair campaign during Fairtrade Fortnight to highlight the plight of banana farmers throughout the world. A recent report from the Foundation on the / Eduardo Martino. Foundation © Fairtrade banana supply chain in Britain, Britain’s Bruising than double their current price. Banana Wars, revealed that if bananas had kept Fairtrade products had record sales of £1.78 billion inflationary pace with other food prices over the past in 2013. This figure represented a thirteen per cent ten years they would now be £1.40 per kilo – more increase on the previous year. 4 the Friend, 28 February 2014 reported by Ian Kirk-Smith [email protected] QPSW supports End Hunger Fast campaign QuakER PEacE & Social “rich” society when our resources markets. These are three of the Witness (QPSW) is supporting the are so unequally shared and so biggest contributors to the hunger End Hunger Fast campaign that many people are going hungry. This crisis. calls for urgent political action to situation diminishes us all. The open letter highlights the end hunger in Britain. ‘No one should have to go plight of the poor and vulnerable Many people throughout Britain, hungry in Britain today,’ she and the hard choices that they including some Friends, will be added. ‘That so many people do face. Half a million people have taking part in a national day of means that we have to ask some visited food banks in the UK fasting on 4 April in solidarity with fundamental questions about since last Easter. Five and a half half a million hungry Britons. End whether our economic and welfare thousand people were admitted to Hunger Fast will be launched on 5 system are working properly.’ hospital for malnutrition last year. March – Ash Wednesday. An open letter from twenty- The letter states that ‘there is an Helen Drewery, general secretary seven Anglican bishops and acute moral imperative to act’ and of QPSW, said: ‘Quakers believe Catholic, Quaker and Methodist that the country faces a ‘national that there is something of God in leaders, which was published on crisis’. The welfare state, it asserts, everyone and in this we are all equal. 20 February, calls for immediate must provide a ‘robust last line of We cannot really call ourselves a action on welfare, wages and food defence against hunger’. Woodbrooke Research grants launches online opened up postgraduate courses THE FRIENDS Historical Society (FHS) research grants have been made available to more people than ever THE FIRst onlinE postgraduate courses before. in Quakerism have been launched by the The awards, which are up to £500 each, will be Woodbrooke Centre for Postgraduate Quaker open for the first time to non-academic researchers. A Studies in Birmingham. maximum of four grants will be made in 2014. The Centre, in conjunction with one of the top ‘We want to make the grants more inclusive,’ said dozen universities in the UK, Lancaster University, Rosalind Johnson of the FHS. ‘The decision was made is now offering the first online postgraduate courses with a view to attracting interest from non-academics in Quakerism: a Postgraduate Certificate in Quaker who are passionate about Quaker history. The research Studies; and an MA in Quakerism in the Modern could be into any period and subject.’ World. The FHS research grants are offered to help historians The development has ‘opened up’ Woodbrooke with their expenses in to students from across the globe. There is no researching Quaker residential requirement. Students, for the first history, or in attending time, from across the UK or anywhere in the world and delivering a paper will be able to register and pursue a postgraduate at a conference or course from where they live. similar event. Grants Ben Pink Dandelion, who looks after the Centre may also be used for for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, will be running publication costs. the courses. He explained: ‘This is a really exciting Rosalind explained: and significant development… We hope that ‘Friends who are we will have a global learning community with interested in applying Friends and those interested in Quakerism from for a grant can find all over the world learning together.’ out more by visiting Both courses are designed to introduce students our website at to theories, issues and processes connected with www.f-h-s.org.uk.’ the history, theology and sociology of Quakerism The deadline for in a global context.
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