We’ll be adding all our news in 2025 here.
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – Autumn 2025
8th September 2025 DSEI arms Fair
FEATURED CONTENT
- Responding to ecological crisis in our area meeting
- Tribute to Alison Janet Samuels, 1947-2023 by Damian Samuels (Wolverhampton Mtg)
- Leek Heritage Open Days by Linda Skellam (Leek Mtg)
- Exploring Earth testimony by Anthony Wilson (Borneo / Lichfield Mtg)
- Quaker witness against war at the DSEI arms fair by Debby Flack (Lichfield Mtg)
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – Summer 2025
May 17th 2025 Photo: Dave Traxson
FEATURED CONTENT
- Gaza: pain, protest, reflection by Angela Glendenning (Stoke Mtg)
- Exploring the Quaker Way: a study day with Stuart Masters by Jonathan Heal (Stone Mtg)
- International Conscientious Objectors Day at the Quaker Service Memorial by John Babb (Wolverhampton Mtg) – you can read more about the Quaker Service Memorial here
Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – Winter 2025
CONTENTS
- George Fox in Lichfield, 1651 and 2024 – read how Lichfield Meeting came to write and enact their play about George Fox’s visit to Lichfield in 1651 – by Rhoda Wharton (Lichfield Meeting)
- Woe unto the bloody city – Berry Dicker (Lichfield Meeting), writer of the reenactment, considers what may have prompted George Fox to denounce the city.
Watch a video of the reenactment which took place on 24th October 2024 and view the photo gallery
- Quaker worship in the footsteps of George Fox – John Heal (Stone Meeting) reflects on the study day hosted by Stafford Meeting on 23rd November 2024
- A new canon to live by – a poem by Dave Traxson (Wolverhampton Meeting)
- An invitation to design with Canva – Deborah Williamson (Stoke Meeting) gives an introduction on the Canva desktop publishing app and invites Friends to join our Canva team
- Fairtrade – Peter Kent-Baguley (Leek Meeting) shares his passionate support for the Fairtrade movement
- Area Meeting Safeguarding – an update by David Morgan (Stafford Meeting)
- The right to acquit according to conscience – Defend our Juries – an account by London Friend, Helen Simpson on her arrest in July 2024 for holding a placard stating “Jurors have the right to acquit according to their conscience”. Article submitted by Berry Dicker (Lichfield Meeting)
- A Silent Spring – a poem by Dave Traxson (Wolverhampton Meeting)
- Offer of books of interest to Friends – Stephen Petter is offering his book collection to Friends. Full list at http://home.clara.net/spetter/
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