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Pandemic prompts new ways of Quaker worship and witness
20 November 2020
Quakers in Britain are set to decide whether to create an online festival for their Yearly Meeting next year.
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Being Quakers: inspired and transformed
27 September 2019
National Quaker Week is a time to celebrate Quaker work, faith and community. Across Britain, Quakers are telling their personal faith journeys to mark the Week which runs from Saturday 28 September to Sunday 6 October.
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Moving in a new direction
21 June 2019
Trustees of Britain Yearly Meeting and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre have this week agreed to work together to radically change the way the two organisations support Quakers across Britain.
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Renewing the Quaker community's story
6 February 2019
A group of Quakers has been tasked to revise the book of discipline that has guided Quaker witness, community and worship across the centuries. In a bid to include voices, experiences and identities that reflect the full breadth and depth of Quakers in Britain today, the revision committee draws on Quakers across a range of occupations, abilities, ages and gender. Two of the committee are under 18.
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Quakers take long hard look at faith
7 May 2018
Quakers in Britain are taking a bold step to rewrite their book of discipline that has guided their work and witness across the centuries.
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Yearly Meeting may plan to revise book of discipline
27 April 2018
More than one thousand Quakers from across Britain are heading to London next week for Yearly Meeting. They may decide to re-write Quaker faith & practice. This is the book of discipline that has guided their work and worship across the centuries.