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Reclaiming simplicity: focusing on the things that matter
When I started working for Quakers in Britain six years ago, my personal emails were in pretty good shape, all read and mainly filed. Now they're all over the place, with 2,000 (and counting) still to be looked at.
Reclaiming simplicity: focusing on the things that matter
What does climate breakdown have to do with our work on migration?
Much of our current political discourse engages with climate change and migration each in isolation. This deflects the necessary conversations around power, distribution of resources and justice. It also divides our efforts around creating a peaceful and just world.
What does climate breakdown have to do with our work on migration?
How do we build an economy on Quaker principles?
One year ago, Quaker Peace & Social Witness began publishing a series of booklets about the new economy. Since then, Quakers in reading groups across Scotland, England and Wales have used these booklets to develop answers to the question: how do we build an economy based on Quaker principles?
How do we build an economy on Quaker principles?
4 things Quakers are learning about inclusion and diversity
Early in 2019 Quakers from all over Britain gathered at Woodbrooke, the Quaker study centre, to explore diversity and inclusion. Framed in Quaker worship, the talks and sessions looked at race, gender and class in particular. Here are some of the key things I took away from the gathering.
4 things Quakers are learning about inclusion and diversity
The Clean Growth Strategy – progress, but falling far short of climate justice
Last week, the government published its long-awaited Clean Growth Strategy. It's the government's attempt to answer the question of how the UK will fulfil its commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions under international climate agreements and UK climate law.
The Clean Growth Strategy
Sowing seeds for a Quaker new economy
In 2015, dozens of Quakers from around the country contributed to the creation of 10 principles for an new economy rooted in Quaker values of equality, truth, simplicity and peace.
Sowing seeds for a new economy
Equality, Earth Day and the power of nuance
Launched in the US in 1970, Earth Day exists to broaden, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Early initiatives raised public awareness about the inextricable links between pollution and public health and resulted in significant new legislation. Education and action on recycling, global warming, sustainable green economies, and carbon footprints followed.
Equality, Earth Day and The Power of Nuance
Witnessing for peace at a time of Remembrance
As Remembrance Day approaches Quakers may find themselves having to consider whether or not to attend community commemorations, church services, parades or participate in wreath-laying. As Quakers, our natural inclination is to stay away from events which seem to glorify Britain's military past. Instead we may wish to focus on events that focus on the cost of war, and that encourage people to work for peace.
Witnessing for peace at a time of Remembrance
Quakers and COP30: bearing witness to care
If only Donald Trump were right.Not about everything, of course. But if only it were true that, as he claimed last month, climate change was merely 'the greatest con job ever perpetuated'. Nothing we need worry about, nothing to see here.But in reality, the breakdown of our climate is a greater crisis than ever before.
Quakers and COP30: bearing witness to care
Buddhists, Quakers and Catholics unite in resistance against fracking
As an intern at Quakers in Britain, I get to work alongside many different colleagues, including those who support Quakers who take action to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Quakers oppose hydraulic fracturing of shale gas – known as 'fracking' – as part of our testimony to sustainability. We advocate for investment in renewable energy sources as an alternative.
Buddhists, Quakers and Catholics unite in resistance against fracking