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A place for insight, analysis and action.
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18 December 2024
George Fox 400: Expanding the narrative
by Ellie McCarthy
Ellie McCarthy examines the part George Fox played in Quaker attitudes towards enslavement.
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11 December 2024
Finance and false solutions at COP29
by Quaker United Nations Office
Lindsey Fielder Cook, Interim Deputy Director and Representative for the Human Impacts of Climate Change at the Quaker United Nations Office, reports back from COP29.
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11 December 2024
A clarion call for climate justice
by Quaker United Nations Office
Johan Cavert, Programme Assistant for the Human Impacts of Climate Change at the Quaker United Nations Office, reflects on his first experience of United Nations climate change talks.
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4 December 2024
9 solidarity actions you can take right now for Palestine and Israel
by Stephanie Hunt
Stephanie Hunt shares nine ways to keep on speaking up and acting for peace.
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21 November 2024
Foundations and future: meeting for worship and the confident voice of early Friends
by Jonathan Baynham
Jo Baynham reflects on early Quaker insights around Quaker ways of worship and how this forms the foundation of Quaker worship today.
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21 November 2024
The long-term cost of war: how sending landmines to Ukraine undermines the fight for a mine-free future
by Oliver Robertson
Oliver Robertson highlights the ongoing cost of landmines.
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11 November 2024
A path to a better future: David Gray writes from Brummana High School in Lebanon
by David Gray
"Our students go to sleep to the sound of explosions and wake to the constant and nerve-wracking buzzing of drones in the morning sky, but nothing will stop them getting to school."
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5 November 2024
COP29 – could it be a COP of peace?
by Rebecca WalkerWoo and Charlotte Cooper
The next UN climate change talks – COP29 – will begin in Baku, Azerbaijan, on 11 November 2024. Charlotte Cooper and Rebecca WalkerWoo take a look at what to expect and share an invitation to witness.
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31 October 2024
The ones who are forgotten on Remembrance Day
by Dixe Wills
Dixe Wills argues that hearing the stories of conscientious objectors – past and present – helps us to refocus Remembrance on the horrors of war and the need for peace.
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17 October 2024
George Fox's 59 rules for good government
by Lucy Saint-Smith
Lucy Saint-Smith reviews George Fox's rules for good government and asks what we can learn from these today.
