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INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS – VOL 167 NO 51 3 Greetings

Judy Kirby Christmas cheer from Copenhagen? Laurie Michaelis 4-5 Time for climate justice: countdown to CO2penhagen

Sunniva Taylor reporting from the summit city 6 An Evangelical Friends’ Christmas

Ron and Carolyn Myers 7 Christmas in the West Bank

Hilary Browne 8 Celebration or challenge?

Christina Saarinen 9 No christmas tree…

Robina Barton 10 Wartime Christmas memories

Stanley Holland 11 A German Christmas

Isabel Evens 12-13 Every day can be Christmas for a Quaker

Willem Furnée, trans. by Mariecke Faber Clarke 14 Christmas Greetings 15 Friends & Meetings 16-21 Holiday reading

16 History of Christianity

Trish Carn 17-19 Beck and Ball: The London Friends’ Meetings

The team at the Friend wants to thank our many contributors over the past year and wish them all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Without you, we wouldn’t be able to publish.

Peter Daniels 20-21 Holding it together

Annette White and Clare-Marie White

.Letters will return in the 8 January 2010 issue.

Cover image: Winter photo: VeryBigAlex/ shutterstock. Images on this page: Quaker girl. Courtesy the Library of the Religious Society of Friends.See pages 17-19.

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