2014
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – October 2014
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – June 2014
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – February 2014
2013
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – October 2013
- A fantastic week of my life – William Essex (Stone Meeting) describes his week at Senior Conference
- Tribute to the life of Tom Bailey (Stoke & Stone Meetings) by his granddaughter, Kathryn Charles
- Same sex marriage act, a time to celebrate, a time to remember – David McBride (Stoke Meeting) reflects on the same sex marriage act celebration at Manchester Meeting House
- “Towards a Quaker View of Sex” 50 years on – John Babb (Wolverhampton Meeting) attended a Meeting at Friends House, London, to mark 50 years since the publication of this unofficial Quaker text.
- Swarthmore, the view from Staffordshire – Leek Meeting response to the Swarthmore Hall Project Group briefing on the future of Swarthmore Hall
- Sacred spaces – Andy Collins (Leek Meeting)
- Memorial in demand – visit by Leeds Area Meeting and arrangements for other Meetings planning to attend – Anthony Wilson (Lichfield Meeting)
- Star light, star bright – Jean Marenghi (Stone Meeting)
- A ‘Quaker Service Memorial’ panel for the Quaker Tapestry – Rhoda Wharton (Lichfield Meeting) explains the process
- The Salter Lecture: Raise the sails as the wind is changing – how radical ideas have become our economic lifeline – John Babb and Win Sutton report (Wolverhampton Meeting)
- The Fair Penny Campaign – Rob Horton (Stafford Meeting) explains the principle of pledging an extra penny in the pound of income tax to protect the most vulnerable from austerity
- Laughing in the light – collection of limericks
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – June 2013
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – February 2013
2012
Stafford Friends’ Trip to Dolgellau – December 2012
Stafford Friends’ Trip to Dolgellau – exploring the history of early Quakers in Wales
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – October 2012
Holding Leader to Account: Sustainability and Nonviolent Social Change in Kenya – October 2012
Holding Leaders to Account: Sustainability and Nonviolent Social Change in Kenya – A workshop at Stafford Meeting led by guest speaker, Laura Shipley Chico from Kenya
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – July 2012
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – February 2012
2011
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – December 2011
Visit to the Historic Quaker Site at Shallowford – July 2011
Visit to the historic Quaker site at Shallowford – Stone Friends visit the historic farmhouse and Quaker burial ground.
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – June 2011
Cruising the Trent-Mersey – June 2011
Cruising the Trent-Mersey – Stone Meeting spend a day cruising the Trent Mersey canal in a narrowboat from Stone to Barlaston and back
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – February 2011
2010
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – June 2010
- Celebration – Stafford Quaker Albert Adams celebrates his 96th birthday
- Stone Meeting at Glenthorne: Rolling Stones – by Joan Holland and Janet Mason (Stone Meeting)
- A global call for compassion – Janet Mason (Stone Meeting) urges Friends to sign the Charter for Compassion, launched in Cape Town last month
- Outreach – a collection of articles for Quaker Outreach Week
- Outreach has many forms – Transition garden by Leek Meeting; A Julian Meeting by Nigel Peckett (Stafford Meeting)
- Outreach: we can all do it – by Joan Holland (Stone Meeting)
- Outreach: Quakers on show – Leek Quakers at the Leek Show; Wolverhampton Quakers at the Wolverhampton Show
- Outreach: the printed word in Leek – Who are the Quakers; Quaker Testimonials; and Earth and Environment; all by Linda Skellam (Leek Meeting)
- Outreach: the printed word in Leek – by Jane Health (Leek Meeting)
- Quakers respond to climate change – Rob Horton (Stafford Meeting) on various Quaker initiatives on climate change, including the Global Change Consultation.
- Houses for the Earth – Beatrice Lance (Uttoxeter Meeting) on the Hockerton Housing Project, 5 eco houses near Southwell Nottinghamshire.
- Networking for peace: QPSW Conference – David Morgan (Stafford Meeting) reports on the Quaker Peace and Social Witness Conference
- Part of a large family: Quaker Life Conference – report by Maggie Jeays (Stafford Meeting)
- Staffordshire Friends in print – a review of “Spirit Rising – Young Quaker Voices”, a collection of poems, prose, pictures and photos from young Friends from around the world by Gayle Yeomans (Stafford Meeting)
- “Collected Poems of Charles Morgan” – Peter Holland (Stone Meeting) has put together this collection which is published by Scarthin Books.
- Virtual Testimonies – Anthony Wilson (Lichfield Meeting) on the pros and cons of virtual activism
- Church bloopers – a selection of bloopers from church bulletins or announcements
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – February 2010
- The Wave – photo of Paula Knight at the demonstration in London
- Digging for Transition in Leek – Linda Skellam (Leek Meeting) talking about Leek’s involvement with the Transition Town movement.
- Three Dear Friends – Thanks for the life of Clarice Dawson by Joan Holland (Stone Meeting); Testimony to the life of Carol Woodings by Jane Heath and Linda Skellam (Leek Meeting); Testimony to the grace of God in the life of Dennis Gripton by Staffordshire Area Meeting; The Depths of the Silence by Gayle Yeomans (Stafford Meeting); Look Well to This Day, a Sanskrit poem.
- Language in Quaker Outreach Materials: Seeking to Reflect Diversity – Agreed minute at a meeting between Staffordshire Area Meeting and Quaker Life on 20th November 2009, regarding the use of God language in Quaker outreach materials.
- About Faith: Inner Peace – article first written for Spark Local Inter-faith magazine by Linda Skellam (Leek Meeting).
- Sufferings: New centre and a richly varied community – report on the September 2009 Meeting for Sufferings by Shelagh Robinson (Stone Meeting).
- Quaker Prison Chaplains Conference: Dealing with loss – report by Beatrice Lance (Uttoxeter Meeting) and Grace Jordan (Stone Meeting).
- Zero Growth Economics: Making it happen – report on the weekend conference at Woodbrooke by Paula Knight (Lichfield Meeting) who is our representative to the Zero Growth events.
- More than meeting on Sundays – a roundup of the groups F/friends are involved with outside of Quakers.
- Bags of Useful Things – about the project to produce supplies for the Women’s Refuge in Hanley and how to contribute by Linda Skellam (Leek Meeting).
- Witness in Lichfield’s Streets – Anthony Wilson (Lichfield Meeting) on the Interfaith event at speakers corner. The topic was “A matter of life and faith – creation, climate change and Copenhagen”.
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