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October 2016 Newsletter

September 2016 Newsletter

This month’s Newsletter is somewhat shorter than usual, but it does contain a very helpful article by the Area Meeting Clerk on the peculiar Quaker practice of Nominations.

August 2016 Newsletter

This month’s edition has reports on Glebe House, Quaker Life Representative Council conference on death and dying, Trustees and financial matters, and Area Meeting at Earls Colne. Featured are on two Area-Meeting Friends: one as...

July 2016 Newsletter

It has been a sad week, with the atmosphere about the Referendum becoming every day nastier and more spiteful, culminating in the tragic murder of a much-loved young MP. Let us hope that things may have shocked some people into...

June 2016 Newsletter

Big blind baker blinded by war but not his war, on plastic chair but not his chair, needs clean strong wood to throne his girth with a drift of flour on the arm. Bright beautiful...

May 2016 Newsletter

News from Clacton: The five people from Clacton Meeting who had been following the Hearts and Minds course agreed to amalgamate the contents of the last three sessions into one as it was felt that the topics were closely related. The...

April 2016 Newsletter

Sixteen elders and overseers from including five from Mid Essex took part in a full day session led by Barbara Windle, of Friargate meeting, York, and Mary Jo Clegg, of North West London AM. It was a varied programme...

March 2016 Newsletter

We are well into the new year now and a very muddling time it is! One minute much too hot, and the next minute freezing cold. But f we can just hold our breath for a bit, we may...

February 2016 Newsletter

GCSE RE Visit Helen and John Lewis This morning the Meeting House was visited by a class of 16 young people from Colne Community School, Brightlingsea, with two teaching staff. The visit was part of a GCSE religious studies course…

December 2015 Newsletter

Allow and embrace dissonance as well as harmony. If we welcome the discomfort of conflict, if we permit  and acknowledge contradiction, if we respect and honour strange or differing ideas and perceptions, dissonance can lead to progress and innovation if handled in a creative and...