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Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – June 2022

• 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

Staffordshire Quaker Newsletter – February 2022

• 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
• Adam Curle’s Quakers

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