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the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843
CONTENTS VOL 169 NO 19 3 Reactions to the election results 4 BAE board challenged 5 Simplicity and solar panels Indigo Redfern 6 Living by means and ends Timothy Phillips 7 Ireland Yearly Meeting David Keating 8-9 Letters 10-11 Horace Alexander: Gandhi’s interpreter Andrew Clark 12-14 Looking for Agnes and Olga David O’Donoghue 15 Jesus – who is he? Jill Allum 16 Q-eye 17 Friends & Meetings
Cover image: Solar panels. Photo: Lilly Andersen/flickr CC. See page 5.
Image this page: Horace Alexander Photo courtesy Friends House Library. See pages 10-11.
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the Friend, 13 May 2011