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New Booklet: ‘To Thine Own Self be True’

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In ‘the Friend’  of 10 July 2020 there is a review of my new booklet: ‘To thine own self be true’…

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Newbury Meeting on Zoom

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Newbury Meeting has successfully met now for several Sundays on Zoom since the lockdown. It is not the same as…

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Panel from the Quaker tapestry showing children from Reading Meeting keeping the meeting going when all the adults were in prison.

Keep your Meetings

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In 1662 when the adults of Reading Quaker Meeting were all in prison, the children kept the Meeting going. Today,…

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Living Simply in our Age

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Quaker membership means being part of a worldwide community of welcoming, caring and thoughtful people. Helen Addison from Newbury Meeting…

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Wallingford Meeting Room

Meetings suspended

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Quakers won’t gather together for worship over the coming months. But our Meetings won’t stop. Some of us will wait…

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Group outside the Reading Uni chaplaincy: (L-R) Roland (Reading Quakers), Michael (student), Letlapa Mphahlele, Angela (Quaker chaplain), Mark (Anglican chaplain)

Letlapa Mphahlele leads discussion on shared humanity

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What is it that unites us as human beings, beyond all our different cultures and beliefs?  Students and local residents…

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Climate crisis protests

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Quakers from the Mid Thames area took part in Extinction Rebellion protests in London over the past two weeks, highlighting…

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How are we tackling climate change?

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Read our 2018 sustainability report to find out what Mid Thames Quakers are doing to tackle climate change and other…

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Houses around us being demolished

Renewing Newbury Meeting – Post 2

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As we move forward with the concept of our own Meeting House development, work on the demolition of the buildings…

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What does love require of us?

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Twenty-five people (3 facilitators, 2 Quakers from Reading and Henley, 3 visitors, and 17 people from Newbury Meeting) enjoyed a…

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