October 2021 | Oxford Quaker Forty-Three Newsletter

About Me…
Loren Scrivener

I have been made to feel so welcomed and accepted by my friends here at the meeting house…

My name is Jarell Ireson; I’m one of the new apprentices working at the Oxford Quakers.

In Step with Divine Will
Ellen Bassani

These encounters are unusual. How can they be coincidences? There was a flow far beyond my control. Surely the divine Spirit was at work?

The Future and Foundations of Quaker Change-Making
Matt Rosen

The Young Friends Worldwide for Climate Action, Peace, and Justice Network will begin a project with Woodbrooke in November on ‘The future and foundations of Quaker change-making’.

October Appeal: The Porch
Elisabeth Salisbury
with S. Frances Dominica

The Porch was originally a café serving food to homeless and vulnerably housed people from the front door of the convent of All Saints Sisters of the Poor, in Magdalen Road, East Oxford, in 1985.

We are Already Connected
A. David Markham

Quakers we must not fall into the modern belief that such technologies are necessary in order to be connected. We were already connected.

Reflecting on the Swarthmore Lecture

A session for Friends to share their thoughts following the 2021 Swarthmore Lecture: ‘Kinder Ground: Creating Space for Truth’, given by Thomas Penny.

Quaker Conversation Openers
Sarah Lasenby

I am keen to try this out because I know there are people out there who are really Quakers, possibly without knowing it.

Piano Enquiry
Anne Watson

An elderly Friend has a piano that she can no longer play, but she’d love it if someone would come to play it occasionally in her home.

The (Very) Big Picture
Keith Wilson

Not much of a picture, is it? Just a collection of dots and blobs on a black background. Nevertheless, the first time I saw it, it stopped me in my tracks.

Mystery Banner
Sarah Lasenby

I call this banner a mystery because when some years ago I needed some cloth to make a new banner, I went to Orinoco in Oxford, a very useful recycling centre.