April 2022 | Oxford Quaker Forty-Three Newsletter

What Can We Do About Ukraine?
Simon Fisher

Certainly it is always better to resist oppression with violence than submit abjectly to it, as Gandhi himself accepted, but maybe there was, and still is, a better option: systematic peaceful civil resistance.

Two Short Poems
Rolf Karl Lange
Contributed by Carol Lange

from his book ‘Walking with the Sun’

Monthly Appeal
Tabora League for Children (TLC)

This month TLC has started a new fundraising drive to support costs not covered by sponsorship and other regular donations.

We are not the only Worshippers
Richard Seebohm

On 15 March I went with Meryem Kayalci to one of the regular meetings of the Oxford Council of Faiths.

Washing Machines and Oxford Friends Action on Poverty (OXFAP)
Karima Brooke

To the people who’ve needed our help, the need to replace their washing machine is not merely ‘annoying’ as it is to me, but a disaster, one more worry to keep them awake at night.

Being a Quaker brings me Joy
Friends from Northumbria Area Meeting
Quakers in Britain – Video

‘The joy of being a Quaker through the eyes of Friends from Northumbria Area Meeting.’

Slavery in the Quaker World: Author Interview with Katharine Gerbner
Friends Journal – Video

‘Katharine Gerbner’s article, “Slavery in the Quaker World: Christian Slavery and White Supremacy,” appears in the September 2019 issue of Friends Journal.’

The Quakers: A Brief History (Religious Society of Friends)
Tom Richey – Video

‘Quakers rejected the traditional church hierarchy and teachings of the Church of England, believing that each individual has an inner light and can achieve a direct relationship with God without the help of a minister.’