Quaker Worship… on the road

Quaker academic and author, Rhiannon Grant, facilitated an “on the road” course at Reading Meeting House looking at Worship, Ministry and Afterwords. This spiritually nurturing event was attended by Quakers…

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Marital tensions

Friends from Reading attended an online Quaker Family History Society talk by Chris Skidmore, Conflict over Quaker marriages in seventeenth-century Reading. “Between about 1685 and 1715 there were two antagonistic…

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Friendship and enjoyment

Young Adult Friends (YAF) in Oxford hosted a Regional Meeting of Quakers. We came together as a community from Meetings across five counties, and centred around the day’s theme: Friendship…

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Standing up for juries

Quakers and friends in Reading protested outside Reading Crown Court, along with similar demonstrators nationally, to remind jurors of their right to make decisions according to their conscience. This right, first established in…

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Considering prayer

The Minster Church of St Mary the Virgin, Reading, hosted the interfaith event ‘Dialogues on prayer’, which was well attended by Quakers, Hindus, Muslims, Jews and Methodist and Anglican Christian.…

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It’s Quaker Week!

Simple, Radical, Spiritual! Newbury Quakers invite you to an Open Afternoon on Saturday Sept 23 from 3-5, for tea and cakes and company. Come and find out what Quakers are…

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