October 2022

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Meeting for Worship for Business is the Beating Heart of Quakerism
Sue Smith & Judith Atkinson
Co-Clerks of Oxford Meeting

 Can you hear it?

 


Monthly Appeal Oxford Winter Night Shelter

It aims to relieve some of the suffering experienced during the coldest months of the year by people who have no accommodation.


Review of Irene Gill’s Memoir, How to be a Refugee
Glen Williams

Life lessons learned from one who escaped the Holocaust.

 


Have We the Spark?
Richard Seebohm

A Jesuit priest wondered  in the context of falling church attendances in this secular age, whether it was with the Quakers that the spark of the Spirit now resided.


Young Adult Friends September Retreat
Matt Rosen

Young Adult Friends spent the last weekend of September in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, in worship and reflection, in a community of ‘love and peace and tenderness’.


Extended Meeting for Worship
Brighid Schroer

An Extended Meeting for Worship / Silent Retreat will take place at 43 St Giles
on Saturday 8 October, 10:15 for 10:30
finishing about 13:30.


Oxford/OSAM Meeting about Ukraine Friends World Committee for Consultation
Office

Wednesday 26 October, 19:15 for 19:30, a blended meeting will be held about Ukraine in Oxford Meeting Garden Room. 


Greetings
Julia Dover

I’m delighted to introduce myself as the brand new Youth, Children and Families Development Worker for Mid Thames and Oxford and Swindon Area Meetings.


Remembering Rachel Howell
Brian Terrell

On September 6, the world and the worldwide Catholic Worker movement in particular, lost a great friend with the death of Rachel Howell in Edinburgh, Scotland. 


Making the Case – The Importance of a Good Story
Juliet Henderson

A conversation with Tany Alexander.

 


Aspire Women: What the Services Are
Tany Alexander

Part 1 (of 4) of ‘Aspire Women’, a film produced by Tany Alexander, of Oxford Meeting. 


Aspire Women: Why Women Services
Tany Alexander

Part 2 (of 4) of ‘Aspire Women’, a film produced by Tany Alexander, of Oxford Meeting. 


Aspire Women: Rachel Starting Again
Tany Alexander

Part 3 (of 4) of ‘Aspire Women’, a film produced by Tany Alexander, of Oxford Meeting. 


Aspire Women: Karen Starting Again
Tany Alexander

Part 4 (of 4) of ‘Aspire Women’, a film produced by Tany Alexander, of Oxford Meeting. 


Community Noticeboard Online, October 2022

From the Office

 


From Quaker Faith and Practice 23.47

Compassion

 

 


Meetings for Worship
October 2022

 

 


Forty-Three Newsletter • Number 522 • October 2022
Oxford Friends Meeting
43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW

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