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the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 51 3 Quakers nominate Hiroshima survivors for Nobel peace prize 4 Sustainability high on the agenda 5 Could your Meeting welcome an ex-offender? Alick Munro 6-7 Christmas shopping seen differently Judy Clinton 8-9 Letters 10-11 Being Quaker, doing Quaker Anne Carus and Zelie Gross 12-13 Joan Mary Fry and The Communion of Life Nigel Morgan 14 ‘It’s the rich what gets the money’ Eric Rigby 15 Q-Eye 16 Christmas Greetings 17 Friends & Meetings

Cover image: Snowy walk. Photo: Photos.com. Images on this page: From the Quaker Life faith and practice conference: ‘Being Quaker, Doing Quaker’. Top: Shelagh Robinson, one of the speakers, with Gillian Ashmore. Centre: Caroline Westgate’s puppets discussing the merits of Trident. Bottom: Two sisters, part of the allage group at the conference. Photos: Trish Carn. See pages 10-11.

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