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INDEPENDENT QUAKER JOURNALISM SINCE 1843

CONTENTS – VOL 168 NO 15 3-5 News 3 Equality Bill makes it through 4 Who will be at your Meeting on 9 May? 5 The time bomb in our shopping baskets Philip Barron 6 Aliens living in another galaxy?

Susan Seymour 7 Comment

Jez Smith and Juliet Batten 8-9 Letters 10-11 Stepping over the poverty line

Sue Glover Frykman 12-13 Arts 12 The Way of the Cross

Rowena Loverance 13 No-nonsense guide to religion

Robin Bennett 14 Who is a funeral for?

Margaret Barker 15 No longer frocked

Ian Johnson 16 q-eye: witness 17 Friends & Meetings

Cover image: Women’s group health education in Bangladesh. Photo: Sue Glover Frykman. See pages 10-11. Images on this page: Above ‘Perfidy’ and below ‘Betrayal’ both by Andrew Rafferty. Photos © Andrew Rafferty. See page 12.

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