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the Friend

Vol 166 No 36

Contents 5 September 2008

3-5 News

3 Activists take ‘token’ action for those seeking sanctuary

4 Heroics from Hlekweni staff as they overcome hardships

5 Whatever happened to Make Poverty History?

6 Spiritual uncertainty Jill Kenner

7 Comment Susan Groves and Martin Wilkinson

8-9 Letters

10-11 Stripped to the core: personal thoughts on leaving prison Sylvia Boyes

12 There’s a crack in everything Peter Fishpool

13 The Edinburgh Tattoo 2008: a spectacle of love? Janice Johnson

14-15 An introduction to Focusing: a Quaker way? Terry O’Loughlin

16 q-eye: a wry look at the Quaker world

17 Friends & Meetings

Cover image: Vouchers bought by Quakers in Westminster so that refused asylum seekers can spend their money in other places. Shops do not offer change if the full amount is not spent. Photo: Jez Smith. See page 3. Image on this page: Staff at the Friend taking a break from putting the magazine together, from top, left to right, Judy Kirby, Jez Smith, George Penaluna, Penny Dunn, Trish Carn and Oliver Robertson. Photo: Philip Iddon.

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