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the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS VOL 169 NO 15 3 York Quaker speaks truth to power 4 Quakers at the arboretum 5 Gaddafi and Quaker faith & practice? Alexander Macpherson-Glasgow 6 The Coalition, the cuts and the costs Tom Jackson 7 Walk the walk Leo Vincent 8-9 Letters 10-11 Life in Bethany Marigold Bentley 12-13 Rowntree Visionaries:

Karen Chouhan Rosemary Hartill 14 April in Paris Anthony Boulton 15 All truth is a shadow except the last Jan Arriens 16 Q-eye 17 Friends & Meetings 17 Simple life at the Meeting house

Cover image: Lambs near Hereford. Photo: Trish Carn.

Images this page: Top: Skyscape Planet: James Turrell's skyscape at Kanazawa twenty-first century museum of contemporary art. Photo: Vitroid/flickr CC. Bottom: James Turrell’s Skyspace at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Photo: Barkaw/flickr CC. See page 4.

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