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the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843
CONTENTS VOL 170 NO 1
3 Thought for the Week:
A spiritual path for our time Ian Kirk-Smith 4-5 News 6 Spiritual needs Reg Naulty 7 Driving safely George Smith 8-9 Letters 10-11 Time without food Raymond Mgadzah 12-13 Reaching Out:
Quaker Quest: Ten years on Alec Davison 14 Work: Virtue or vice Anthony Boulton 15 Poem: Practising the Presence Kenneth Bird 16 Q-eye: a look at the Quaker world 17 Friends & Meetings
Sibford School’s recently acquired collection of costume dolls. Photo: Sibford School. See page 16.
Cover image: A snow-dusted Pendle Hill. Photo: Llamaalex/flickr CC See pages 12-13.
See page 16 for the answers to last issue’s puzzles.
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the Friend, 6 January 2012