The Israeli Holocaust museum Yad Vashem has announced that it will recognise the efforts of British Quakers who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, it has been reported in the Jewish Chronicle. The decision came after eight years of campaigning by Jewish refugee Peter Kurer. After many years of research Peter Kurer had submitted…
In the UK we can take it more or less for granted that there are other Quakers, and a Meeting House, somewhere near our location. What is it like to live in a country where there are few or no other Quakers? On a recent trip to Ethiopia, I was surprised to meet someone who…
Two radio Quaker mentions likely to be coming up: Monday 20 December BBC R4 4.30pm Ernie Rae and guests discuss whether faith inspires philanthropy in Beyond Belief. London Quaker Jennifer Kavanagh is one of the guests.Listen here: http://bbc.in/fjICqO. Sunday 2 January 2011 BBC R2 Aled Jones plans to interview Geoffrey Durham on Good Morning Sunday.…
Minding the Future The 2008 Swarthmore Lecture by Christine A M Davis. Reviewed by Jez Smith. The latest in a long line of a standing fixture in the British Quaker tradition, Minding the Future, the 2008 Swarthmore Lecture, by Christine A M Davis, is about how we manage our resources, or, stewardship. Minding the Future…
A man whose family was saved by Quakers from the Holocaust fears that the Quaker role in saving over 10,000 Jews could be lost. According to the Jewish Chronicle, Peter Kurer submitted a paper last year to Yad Vashem (The Holocaust heroes’ and martyrs’ remembrance authority) about the Quaker role in saving Jews in the…
Paul Parker, the new recording clerk, emphasised values of equality when interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on Sunday 13 December. Asked why he had taken the job of recording clerk Paul said: “It felt like time to do something for the Quakers.” He explained that he has been involved with Quakers for about 25 years.…
A chance encounter with a kangaroo led to Heather Curridge’s first encounter with Quakers. This sentence may have had some credulity if Heather was in Australia but she was in Maryland, USA. She is the heroine of Lisa Samson’s novel, Quaker Summer. This is a tale of a middle class American mom’s angst at the…
I’m involved in starting a community food garden in the area where I live. It started for me with letting myself feel the shock of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill earlier this year. Those scenes are the consequence of oil-dependence – all the easy oil is gone. What is left is ever harder to drill.…
A left wing Quaker Christian commentator has announced that he intends to walk from Birmingham to London in June and July 2010 as a ‘pilgrimage of repentance’ for his former homophobic attitudes. Symon Hill, the associate director of the Ekklesia thinktank, will minister at churches along the way. He hopes to encourage the entire Christian…
Jim Horne, writing in the New York Times blog (9 December) about their daily crossword explains the construction of some of the clues and their answers. It includes this paragraph: A couple of famous female athletes make the puzzle today. Tennis player EVONNE Goolagong won 14 Grand Slam titles, and “Two-time U.S. Women’s Open winner