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INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS VOL 167 NO 22 3 Quakers collaborate on a peace education

project in Kenya 4 What cost cheap food for our tables? 5 Filling in that form 6 Quakers and climate change

Richard Hilken 7 Comment

Michael Booth and John Arnison 8-9 Letters 10 Growing old in a Meeting

Barney Smith 11 Dedicated service

G Gordon Steele 12-13 Book club 12 What canst thou say?

Jennifer Kavanagh Working with anger Marion Leibmann 13 Season of secrets

Jennifer Allott Religion without fairy tales, science with soul Virginia Drummond 14 A Baptist uncovers Quaker history

Peggy Heeks 15 Christianity versus violence

Helen Porter 16 q-eye: a Quaker look at the world 17 Friends & Meetings

Cover image: As individuals our effect is less but together we have a larger environmental impact. Photo: diongillard/flickr CC:BY. See page 6. Images on this page: Winifred Gill with RJE Silvey in his office at the BBC. Photo courtesy Ruth Serner. See page 16. Allotments. Photo: Trish Carn. See page 16.

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