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Post-pandemic peace in the classroom

Updated 17 December 2020

"Good Morning, Ada.""Good morning", my 3-year-old daughter answers her teacher. "Good Morning Isabel.""Good morning", I reply cheerfully, before realising the teacher is talking to a 3-year-old Isabel in the online classroom. I cringe.

Post-pandemic peace in the classroom

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Are you ready for 2021?

Updated 11 January 2021

Are you ready for 2021, or are you still reeling from 2020? The pandemic, like a powerful lens, has shown up more clearly many of the challenges we already knew we faced – both inside our Quaker community and in the world around us. In this blog I want to take a look at some of those challenges, and consider the questions we need to ask ourselves in order to meet them.

Are you ready for 2021?

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How Quakers can respond to the government's new immigration plan

Updated 6 May 2021

At the heart of our Quaker testimonies lie equality, peace, truth, justice and simplicity. The government's latest immigration proposals challenge each of these values.

The UK government's new immigration plan: how can you respond?

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6 actions you can take for Palestine and Israel

Updated 10 June 2021

We welcomed with deep relief the end to the recent round of bombing in Gaza and firing of rockets into Israel. But while the world's attention may have moved on, the violence and structural oppression of the military occupation of Palestine has not ended and the struggle for equal rights continues.

6 actions you can take for Palestine and Israel

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To protest is to participate

Updated 6 December 2021

Quakers have been around for almost 400 years. From the very start we've spoken up and out against injustice. Protest is vital to us because it's one of the ways we put our faith into action. We speak out when God, the Spirit, our conscience – call it what you will – tells us we cannot stay silent.

To protest is to participate

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Ending the fossil fuel era: 5 things the UK government can do in 2022

Updated 21 February 2022

Today marks 100 days since the end of COP26. In his closing speech in Glasgow, COP26 President Alok Sharma told the world that the pledge to keep global temperature rises within 1.5°C "will only survive if we keep our promises; if we translate commitments into rapid action".100 days after those solemn words, what can be said about the UK's promises?

Ending the fossil fuel era: 5 things the UK government can do in 2022

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Heeding the voice of conscience: a call to continued action

Updated 9 December 2022

On 15 May we marked Conscientious Objectors' Day. At one of the ceremonies around Britain, I joined people gathered in Tavistock Square, London to hear music, poetry and testimony in the leafy gardens where the conscientious objection memorial stone rests. We laid flowers for all those who refused to kill. You can watch a recording on the Peace Pledge Union website.

Heeding the voice of conscience: a call to continued action

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Becoming an anti-racist faith community

Updated 30 May 2024

[QUOTE-START] Tackling racism is a spiritual imperative…We may not be ready, we may not feel that we are ready, but this next step we take in faith and trust that the Spirit will show us what we need to do. We declare our commitment to becoming an actively anti-racist faith community. We are still wrestling with what this means for us. - Minute 17, Yearly Meeting 2021 [QUOTE-END]

Time for change: action not words

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From policy to practice: safeguarding the most vulnerable

Updated 14 March 2023

It only seems a moment ago that I was confined during lockdown and working on the York Area Meeting safeguarding policy. But time goes on quickly and I see from my notes that it has been three years. This short article is an account of my personal journey with safeguarding and that of my team. I will try to provide a pen portrait of what we have learnt, what we have achieved and *spoiler alert* why I'm proud of it.

From policy to practice: safeguarding the most vulnerable

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5 solidarity actions you can take for Palestine and Israel

Updated 6 November 2023

The scale of the violence and harm to civilians is unprecedented and unlike anything in living memory. Hospitals, schools, places of worship, roads, and homes have been decimated, and civilians have been targeted. Faith groups and human rights agencies across the world have called on the international community to act immediately to secure a ceasefire and work to ensure humanitarian aid and access.

5 solidarity actions you can take for Palestine and Israel