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Community in the Time of a Pandemic

by | 8, Apr, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening

We received this message via a Geneva Friend who is a member of meeting in Australia. Victoria Regional Meeting, Religious Society of Friends, Quakers Our Testimony of Community in the Time of a Pandemic In 1667 during the Great Plague, Isaac Penington wrote to the...

School Climate Protests 15 March 2019

by | 14, Mar, J | blog, Spiritual Deepening

It began with a Swedish 9th grader Greta Thunberg in August 2018 and as of tomorrow on the 15 March 2019 Earth Strike will count tens of thousands of school children supported by some of the world’s biggest environmental groups demanding that governments reduce...

Hate Speech Tracker #EP2019 and #choose respect

by | 28, Feb, J | blog

A message from Andrew Lane, the director of Quaker Council for European Affairs QCEA will be launching a new website (chooserespect.eu) on anti-migrant political discourse in European Parliament elections. (Recall that the elections are coming up in May 2019.)...

Half of EU member states have hit or are close to hitting their 2020 renewable energy targets

by | 21, Feb, J | blog

A recent article from the World Economic Forum gives this good news but tempers it with further news that there is a “slow-down in rates of renewable energy use across the EU.” This makes it possible that the whole of the EU will miss its 2030 target of...

Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C – Urgent climate action now

by | 6, Feb, J | blog

QUNO has published a 34 page Summary for Policymakers of a 700 page report from the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) which was itself a collation of findings from 6,000 peer-reviewed research papers. The report is a reference for wider society,...

Thoughts on non-violent communication

by | 12, Sep, J | blog

“Our diversity invites all of us to speak, of which we know (think, belief) to be true in our lives and to learn from others.” from Quaker Faith and Practice 1.01 Thoughts of a friend on the topic of the Annual Meeting Although not a Quaker, still...

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