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the Friend INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS VOL 169 NO 47

3 Thought for the Week: Spiritual truth Ian Kirk-Smith 4-5 News 6 Olympic Truce Trevor Evans 7 The Hexham Debates Caroline Westgate 8-9 Letters 10-11 The Angel of Newgate Deborah J Swiss 12-13 Experiment with Light: Movement of the Spirit Hilary Pinder 14 Poem: Voice of the morning Lloyd Kemp 16 q-eye: a wry look at the Quaker world 17 Friends & Meetings

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The ‘Occupy London’ tent city continues to draw attention to the dramatic inequalities in British society today.

Cover image: Light through autumn leaves. As the leaves fall, our Experiment with Light series draws to a close. Photo: Muffet / flickr CC. See pages 12-13.

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