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Quaker Earthcare Gathering Epistle
by Teresa Belton An excerpt of the published record of the Quaker Earthcare Gathering held in Derbyshire in October 2025. 114 Friends of all ages gathered to explore how our Quaker faith and communities can help us to meet the Earth crisis with hope, strength, and compassion. As we meet, Hurricane Melissa approaches Jamaica. Climate catastrophe is forecast to cause billions of human deaths this century amid ecological collapse and ongoing mass extinction. We have heard that
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Infantilising Young People: Another Quaker led Error?
by John Myhill Over at least the last hundred years, each generation of parents, teachers, politicians, professionals and sales people; have increasingly refused to make young people over six years old adult responsibilities for tasks at home, in school and in the community. I first became aware of his amongst Quakers 50 years ago, and I foolishly followed the fashion. This goes against the entire history of Evolution, which develops in the young of every species, the genet
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Shabbat service at Norwich Quaker Meeting House
Norwich Quakers welcome the Norwich Liberal Jewish Community to their first Shabbat service in Norwich Quaker Meeting House
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Faith leaders pledge to tackle climate change
Norwich Quakers had an active role in organising an event where Faith leaders came together on the 11th July in Norwich with a pledge to...
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As the Met bruised in
An article by James Butler Last Thursday evening, more than twenty Metropolitan police officers – some armed with tasers – broke down the...
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Living by a WMD base
Norfolk & Waveney Area Meeting will be the 48th organisation to join Lakenheath Alliance for Peace ,(LAP) https://lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk/ Lakenheath is our local WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction) base, 42 miles from Norwich, making East Anglia a potential target and/or perpetrator of nuclear genocide. Everything that happens, happens somewhere. If that somewhere is nearby, it is harder to ignore but easier to take action. I was very pleased that the EDP saw fit to
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Norfolk church leaders sign declaration of unity.
A congregation of around 150 saw senior regional leaders of the Anglican, Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, URC, Quakers and Salvation Army...
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Quakers join first global week of action for peace and climate justice
https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-join-first-global-week-of-action-for-peace-and-climate-justice
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Churches join 2024 Chain of Prayer for Norwich
The Friends Meeting House in Upper Goat Lane in Norwich provided the setting for this year’s annual Ecumenical Chain of Prayer which...
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The women of Swarthmoor Hall
https://www.quaker.org.uk/blog/the-women-of-swarthmoor-hall
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Book Review
by Toni Berry Norwich Local Meeting Wisdom Jesus (2008) by Cynthia Bourgeault and Putting on the Mind of Christ (2000) by Jim Marion...
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December 2023. An Open Letter from the Inter-Faith Environment Forum about COP 28
Norfolk Interfaith group was founded on the initiative of Fazlun Khalid, who is the Founder Islamic Foundation for Ecology and...
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How can we Take Happiness into the World of the Future?
21st November 7.30 – 9.30pm Norwich Quakers Sustainability Group will be hosting a workshop, one of the events in the Possitopia Festival...
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Spirituality and Quakerism
David reflects on ‘a sense of mystery … a collective dream … a shared, unconscious experience with others which cannot be rationally...
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News of Quakers throughout the world
https://www.qcea.org/around-europe-396-out-now/ QCEA , the Quaker Council for European Affairs,( office@qcea.org ) works to promote...
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Our Duty to Care for the Environment
Quakers believe strongly in the need for urgent action to respond to the current climate and biodiversity crisis. We also believe that...
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Letting God get a word in
I had a coffee before coming to Meeting the the other day, and got into conversation with an Anglican who had stopped for a coffee on her...

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Report on our recent climate action event: What Now? Refresh Rethink Reset
On Saturday 7th May, Norwich Quaker Meeting hosted a public event organised by Norwich Meeting Sustainability Group. It was envisaged as...

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Our use of plastic
As part of our commitment to sustainability, we should like to encourage everyone who uses the Friends Meeting House to find ways of...
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