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17 February 2026
Hope is our covenant: reparations reflections
by Esta Nyeko-Lacek
Reflecting on a reading from bell hooks, Esta Nyeko-Lacek explores how love offers the emotional and ethical groundwork for repair and justice.
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4 December 2025
Walking with history: reflections on a reparations walking tour
by Zephyr Blofeld
On Saturday 20 November, despite the relentless drizzle, fourteen of us, seven adults and seven young people, set out together on a guided reparations walk through Bristol.
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18 December 2024
George Fox 400: Expanding the narrative
by Ellie McCarthy
Ellie McCarthy examines the part George Fox played in Quaker attitudes towards enslavement.
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21 August 2024
Lloyd's of London: underwriting exploitation?
by Anna Lewis
Growing from a small 17th century coffeehouse to a gleaming glass and metal financial headquarters today, Lloyd's of London has played a role in 300 years of British history, including the transatlantic slave trade. But are their actions in the present in line with what they have to say about that history?
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7 August 2024
Dispatches from the Quaker World Plenary
by Marghuerita Remi-Judah
Marghuerita Remi-Judah describes life at the Quaker World Plenary being held in South Africa and online from 5-12 August.
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30 May 2024
Reparations reflections: reading into the silence
by Susan Seymour
Susan Seymour reflects on two passages from Helen Minnis's 2022 Swarthmore Lecture, Perceiving the temperature of the water.
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18 April 2024
Reparations reflections: truth and reconciliation
by Ann Morgan
Ann Morgan reflects on a passage from Ros Martin's book Before I am rendered invisible: resistance from the margins.
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4 October 2023
Reparations: addressing harm and restoring right relationships
by Ginny Baumann
As Quakers consider next steps on reparations, Ginny Baumann of Streatham and Brixton Meeting suggests we address the harms we have inherited alongside working to be 'good ancestors' on the decisive issue for our times: climate justice.
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19 July 2023
Reparations: learning from Jamaican experience
by Siobhan Haire
Siobhán Haire shares some reflections on meeting with the Churches' Reparations Action Forum.
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27 October 2022
Becoming an anti-racist faith community
by Siobhan Haire
As Black History Month draws to a close, Siobhán Haire shares how Quakers are taking action on becoming an anti-racist employer and faith community.
