Mid Thames Area Quaker News
Meeting on Christmas Eve
We’ll be meeting at Wallingford on Christmas Eve at the usual times. Look forward to seeing you all there.
Read MoreChristmas Eve Meeting by Candlelight in Henley
Sunday 24th December There will be a Meeting by candlelight at Henley Quaker Meeting House 4.00 – 4.45pm, followed by festive refreshments, replacing the morning Meeting. All welcome.
Read MoreQuaker 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…
Read MoreMarital 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…
Read MoreFriendship 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…
Read MoreMeeting for Worship, on Broad Street
World Quaker Day was marked in Reading with a climate-justice vigil, and by taking the peace of our silent waiting worship to Broad Street. This was followed by the procession…
Read MoreStanding 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…
Read MoreConsidering 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.…
Read MoreQuaker week at Newbury
Friends enjoyed a sunny get together in the Newbury Quaker garden at the beginning of Quaker week.
Read MoreIt’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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