January 2022 | Oxford Quaker Forty-Three Newsletter

Desmond Tutu
7 Oct 1931 – 26 Dec 2021
Photo by Benny Gool
Wikimedia Commons

Remembering Desmund Tutu
Bernard Clarke, Caroline Roaf,
Jeanne Warren, Ann Watson

Several Friends share here their own memories of Tutu’s visits to Peers School in 1990, and the Sheldonian Theatre in 2010.

Monthly Appeal January 2022
Oxford Winter Night Shelter / The Living Room
Elisabeth Salisbury

At almost the last moment the City Council has refused permission for OWNS to open again from January to March.

Painting by Hugo
Hugo Spencer

Every once in a while during the Afterword of a zoom MfW, we glimpse some of Hugo’s wonderful artwork.

Quaker Faith & Practice Revision
Tas Cooper

The Book of Discipline Revision Committee (compiling the next book of Faith & Practice) welcomes your ideas!

Being Humble and Bold?
Deb Arrowsmith

Don’t get me wrong; we all need support, encouragement, and sharing perhaps, of what we Quakers are all about and the difference we can actually make within ourselves, our families, communities, towns, cities, and countries.

Breath
Juliet Henderson

Life’s a privilege

Three Small Books
Carol Lange

I used them with my two daughters. They used them with their children.

Aims for a New Year
Keith Wilson

At the start of this new year I’ve been thinking that, when they’re formulated just right, goals and targets – resolutions if you like – are very useful in encouraging us to try harder. But if they ask too much, they can be discouraging and demotivating.

Jane and Simon Fisher with seasonal wassailers

Happy New Year!
The Newsletter Team

Very best wishes to everyone for 2022.

Quaker Voices for Mental Health
Becky Riddell

The second annual QVMH gathering will be by Zoom on Saturday 5 February 2022. More information will be available in January from the editors of QVMH News.

Martin Sweeping leaves in the garden. Photo by Jacqui Mansfield

Our Garden at 43
The Garden Team

The garden team is putting the garden to rest for the Christmas period and will start meeting again in February. All are welcome to join Thursday gardening 11:00 till 15:00. Gardening, coffee, lunch and wonderful conversation on offer!

Oxford Brookes University School of Education

Peaceful Youth Research Project
Susannah Wright

A Brookes University Senior Lecturer in the School of Education is conducting a research project about children and the peace movement from 1919 to 1969.

She is soliciting interview participants.

Quaker Beliefs
Quakers in Britain

Different Quakers share their thoughts on what Quakers believe.

Quaker Worship
Quakers in Britain

When worshipping we’re all connecting to the divine essence, or God, or Spirit or – we use many different terms but we’re all connecting to the same thing within that silence.