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Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – October 2022

Buddhist monks and Quakers praying in open fields in front of a herd of cows.

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Beach of Sanctuary – Dave Traxson and Rosemary Fox (Wolverhampton Meeting) on their Meeting’s summer breaks and holidays for local sanctuary seekers
Friends Join Peace Walk – Lichfield and Stafford Friends join Buddhist peace walk.
Testimony to the life of Christine Miller by Roger Oldfield (Stafford Meeting)
From Lichfield to Malaysian Borneo, the Wilson’s New Life – Anthony and Anne Wilson, KampOng campus, Tenghilan, Sabah (formerly Lichfield Meeting)
Safeguarding – update from David Morgan (Stafford Meeting)
Stafford Open Day – update on the outreach event
Vigil for South Africa: Children in Detention (1989) – a selection of readings from the Vigil
Whither Religion? – Rob Horton (formerly of Stafford Meeting) on Western dualistic thinking about religion
Julian Meeting in Stafford – Maggie Jeays (Stafford Meeting)
God Language – Gayle Yeoman (Stafford Meeting)
Deciding About a Car: a moral dilemma – Helen Buckroyd (Lichfield Meeting)

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Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – June 2022

Two images side by side, Left is Sue and Bill Walley. Right is Rosemary Crawley.

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Striving to increase understanding of abuse and improve safeguarding in our Area Meeting – David Morgan (Stafford Meeting)
Testimonies to the life of Bill Walley: Bill Walley and Quakerism by Sue Walley; Bill Walley a full life by Frank Farnworth (a lifelong friend of Bill)
Our Dear Friend Rosemary Crawley – a testimony by Friends at Lichfield Meeting
Quaker Discipline – Stephen Petter (Wolverhampton Meeting) reflects on the continuing need for discipline
Grief: A reflection on a path we do not want to go down but cannot avoid – Rhoda Wharton (Lichfield Meeting)
Charlotte Mew: The Trees are Down – a poem with commentary by Richard Harris, former Bishop of Oxford
Invasion of Ukraine – John Nicholls (Wolverhampton Meeting)
2 Requiems for Ukraine – Nigel Peckett (Stafford Meeting)
All Change! Making Paths on Shifting Ground – Alison Crane (Cheltenham Meeting, formerly of SAM)
Alfie – tribute to canine member of Stafford Meeting by Maggie Jeays

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Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – February 2022

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The future of our Meeting Houses – discussion points for Area Meeting in May 2022
In our Area Meeting:
- Two dear Friends – notice of the deaths of Rosemary Crawley (Lichfield Meeting) and Bill Walley (Stafford Meeting)
- Anne and Anthony Wilson – notice of emigration
- Safeguarding – David Morgan appointed Safeguarding Officer.
Staffordshire Quaker History – update from research team including the acquisition of photocopied records from the County Records Office.
World Religion Day in Leek – account of event hosted by Leek Meeting by Steve Thompson of the Ba-ha’i group.
Our spirituality
- Life Force by Annette White (Stoke Meeting)
- Becoming More Human by Richard Ashwell (Wolverhampton Meeting)
- Beyond Buildings by Gayle Yeomans (Stafford Meeting
How should we bear witness
- Except from ‘Some Fruits of Solitude (1693) by Williams Penn
- What do Advices and Queries Say
- Expressing Opinions to Fellow Quakers by Stephen Petter (Wolverhampton Meeting)
- From Peace in Communion to Peace in Palestine by Peter Kent-Baguley (Leek Meeting)
- Quakers on Earth Matters: Actions not Words by Jim Kinnibrugh (Stone Meeting)
- Reaching out on Earth Matters – a talk given by Rob Horton (previously of Stafford Meeting) to the AGM of Sustainability in Colwich & the Haywoods
- Effective Protest – Target the Offender by John Nicholls (Wolverhampton Meeting)
- Understanding What ‘The Law’ Stands For by Anthony Wilson
- Civil Disobedience: Resisting HS2 by Hazel Ball (Stop HS2 Staffordshire)
- Facing up to Veganuary by Rosemary Fox (Wolverhampton Meeting
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