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INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 45

3 Equal love campaign launched 4 Find a Quaker to marry… 5 Palestine: the time to act is now Jez Smith and Marisa Johnson 6-7 Holding the law in the Light Barbara Mitchels 8-9 Letters 10-11 Why is not love listed in the subject index of Quaker faith & practice? Murri Smith, Maureen Furniss and Barbara Mark 12 Hands RV Bailey 13 Ministry in Quaker Meeting David Blamires 14 A Life without Work Ian Kirk-Smith 15 Do you work gladly…? Elisabeth Salisbury 16 q-eye 17 Friends & Meetings

Cover image: A path of rose petals, leading to love? Photo by Jurvetson (flickr).

50 Years in Sevenoaks Meeting House

On Saturday 30 October, Sevenoaks Quakers celebrated fifty years of worshipping in the present Meeting house in Holly Bush Lane. About forty people gathered together to look at the display of photographs and memorabilia, to remember old friends, to share memories and to catch up with each other’s news. Two people who were present at the opening of the Meeting House on 1 October 1960 attended. José Gray (above left), then a child of twelve, gave a short talk about the early days in the life of the Meeting in this building, which had been the sanatorium for Walthamstow Girls School before being bought by the Society of Friends. Prior to this, Sevenoaks Friends had met in a variety of venues around the town. Photos: Keith Wade.

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the Friend, 5 November 2010