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the Friend Independent Quaker Journalism Since 1843

Contents VOL 169 NO 31 3 Welcome to Yearly Meeting Gathering 4 The George Goman Memorial Lecture:

Radical Quakerism Symon Hill 5 Meeting new Friends 6-7 Prophetic voices Ian Kirk-Smith 8-9 Women prisoners and the United

Nations Oliver Robertson 10-11 Photo montage: Canterbury 2011 Trish Carn 12-13 Snapshots from Yearly Meeting

Gathering 14-15 Quaker testimonies and the challenge of climate change Tom Greeves 16 Letters 17 Friends & Meetings

Image above: Being upheld: supports for the Big Top, site of the main YMG sessions at the University of Kent, Canterbury. All photos unless otherwise named are by Trish Carn.

Cover image: Gathering at the Big Top in Canterbury.. Photo: Trish Carn.

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