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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

We now get up to 14 Friends at our mid week meeting. A few years ago we sometimes had one or two. The increase demonstrates an increased demand for worship in these uncertain times. Join us at 1 to 1.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, St.Johns Street, Bury St.Edmunds, IP331SJ.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 05/02/2026

The arms trade is a root cause of human suffering, facilitating deadly conflict and the suppression of human rights around the world. Quakers joined other peace campaigners in two days of protest to draw attention to the SDSC-UK arms fair hosted by Birmingham's NEC. Video credit: Zoe Broughton

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Please join Amnesty International for Write for Rights. Join us to sign cards and letters and to find out more about how you can support Human Rights Defenders. At St.Edmundsbury Cathedral, 10-2pm, Saturday 13th December.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Very moving period of silent reflection including the laying of our white poppy wreath at Bury St.Edmunds war memorial. “Working for Peace requires us to remember with integrity”.

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Quakers in Britain Peace Team @peace-campaigns.quaker.org.uk · 05/11/2025

We are very pleased to be hosting @everycasualty.bsky.social on Sunday as part of Alternative Remembrance Sunday events. Their 'Virtual Cenotaph', projected onto Friends House from 5pm, will remember 100 lives lost to war in 2024. It will be a powerful, moving memorial quaker.org.uk/events/the-v...

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The Virtual Cenotaph - a light projection onto Friends House

At 5pm on 9 November, join us and Every Casualty Counts for their projection of a 'Virtual Cenotaph' onto Friends House, memorialising 100 civilians and soldiers killed in war in 2024.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Just a reminder: Join Bury St Edmunds Quakers at the Angel Hill War Memorial on Sunday 9 November at 2.30pm for a short act of remembrance to honour all victims of war and reflect on the need for peace. All very welcome.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Join Bury St Edmunds Quakers at the Angel Hill War Memorial on Sunday 9 November at 2.30pm for a short act of remembrance to honour all victims of war and reflect on the need for peace. All very welcome.

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Stuart Masters @stuartkmasters.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

My book, 'The Quaker Faith: Friends of Love and Truth' will be published by T&T Clark (Bloomsbury) next week, on Thursday 30th October.

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The Quaker Faith

In this accessible introduction to the Quaker tradition, Stuart Masters traces the roots of the Quaker way in 17th-century English Puritanism and founder George…

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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

How can Quaker communities move beyond racial harm toward racial justice—naming patterns like conflict avoidance, denial, and performativity? A new resource co-authored by FCNL's Lauren Brownlee: buff.ly/ulD29A9

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St Edmundsbury Cathedral @stedscath.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Join our spiritual mindfulness sessions on Fridays at 11.45 am in the Edmund Room.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

White poppies are now available in our meeting house, and also at the St.Johns Community Cafe, IP33 1SJ. www.ppu.org.uk

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

A very moving video from Beyond Conflict, the global mental health charity for survivors of war, terrorism and displacement. Beyond Conflict believes that the mental health of every person matters. The charity aims to heal minds, change lives and restore hope. youtu.be/Qe7EkrfBlVQ

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Echoes of Hope

YouTube video by Beyond Conflict Podcast

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Stuart Masters @stuartkmasters.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

The following quote is set in white letters against a colourful abstract background based on circle shapes:

"All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others."

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Quite a few people engaged with us at our stall outside the Meeting House last Saturday as part of Quaker Week. We also held our monthly Silent Witness for Climate Justice (first Saturday of every month, 10am Angel Hill). Find out more about Quakers at www.quaker.org.uk

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

We recently visited Glenthorne Guest House and Conference Centre in beautiful Grasmere. Run as a Quaker Charity but open to all. Glenthorne is a place where you would not feel alone if you come on your own. Very special atmosphere & stunning walks right from the door. 2026 programme now!

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Stuart Masters @stuartkmasters.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Think how often injustice is related to inconsistency. Inconsistency has too often been the cradle of injustice and sociopathic behavior. So to speak of consistent compassion is to affirm the importance of a reliable and steady love for others, regardless of their station in life. Philip Gulley

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 07/10/2025

On October 7th, we hold in our hearts all those whose lives have been lost and those who are still suffering, and pray for a just peace.

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A prayer for 7 October

Find out about Quakers and how our faith translates into action.

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Rachele @racheledf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Online talk in Feb and new free short course * Prof. Hilary Cremin (Cambridge U Education Fac) * New FREE OpenLearn short course 'Principles and Practice of Peace Education', an OU/Quakers in Britain collaboration - aimed at schools and educators www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-do-edu...?

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How do educators build a culture of peace?

Prof Hilary Cremin,Head of the Faculty of Education at Cambridge University,joins us to mark the launch of the new Peace Education Course

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 03/10/2025

The theme of Quaker Week this year is Love Your Neighbour. Listen to this beautiful episode of the BBC’s Daily Service, delivered by @timquaker.bsky.social – a Quaker and general secretary of @globalquakers.bsky.social – which reflects on the meaning and importance of loving your neighbour.

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Daily Service - Love your neighbour - The Greatest Commandment - BBC Sounds

Christian worship with a Bible reading, prayer and music led by Tim Gee.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 02/10/2025

Violence is never right. Killing is never right. Targeting people because of who they are is never right. We give thanks for all those, from all backgrounds, who have come together to oppose hatred and promote living together peacefully. It is vital that we all continue to do so.

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Quaker statement in response to Manchester synagogue attacks on Yom Kippur

We offer our love, support and solidarity with the Jewish community, in Manchester and beyond, following the horrifying antisemitic attack on a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in t...

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Find out more about Bury St.Edmunds during Quaker Week at our stall outside the Meeting House, St.Johns Street, IP33 1SJ 10-2 on Sunday, October 4th. All are very welcome. We are very F/friendly! For more information on Quaker Week nationally: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 23/09/2025

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour. Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Quaker Week 2025: Love Your Neighbour - a call for compassion in a divided world

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Saturday, 27th Sept marks the 200 anniversary of the of the Stockton & Darlington railway. Quakers played a major part in the development of railways. One reason for this involvement was the exclusion of Quakers from the professions hence the interest in business.

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Tim Gee @timquaker.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I liked this, from Quakers in Britain Recording Clerk, Paul Parker, considering 'Who is my neighbour'?

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Talk at our Meeting House on Fast Fashion and Recycling by Sarah-Jane Clarke, West Suffolk Council, 7pm, Saturday 26th September. All very welcome. Refreshments. Organised by Bury St Edmunds Climate Cafe.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Our wonderful Quaker Meeting House Librarian has chosen a few books to display to mark the International Day of Peace on the 21st September un.org/PeaceDay

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Plenty of cyclists and walkers visited our Meeting House during annual Rise and Stride event In aid of Churches Trust. Great outreach & a stark contrast with troubling events in London on the same day.

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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Positive story time! “Refugees from across the world have been lending their gardening skills and their muscles to Quakers in South Cumbria, helping to create biodiverse friendship gardens for both wildlife and visitors to enjoy.” www.quaker.org.uk/communities/...

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Friends from around the globe dig in to help Friends in Cumbria

Find out about Quakers and how our faith translates into action.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Armed Forces Day is on Sat, 28th June. Quakers hold a Testimony to peace and all that makes for peace. We respect the courage of our armed forces & desire to do whatever may be possible to keep them from harm. We are concerned at the manner in which AFD is widely presented as family entertainment.

Armed Forces Day Banner outside the Meeting Hpuse

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Please join us at our climate silent witness on Saturday, 5th April, 1130 to 1200 on Angel Hill, Bury St.Edmunds. You do not have to be a Quaker! All very welcome. We also wish to assert our historic right to hold peaceful witness & protest

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 01/04/2025

Join Quakers on Thursday at a meeting for worship outside New Scotland Yard, 12-1pm 🪧 Join us in responding to police aggression with love and peace 🙏🕊️ Details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scotland-y...

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Scotland Yard Quaker Meeting for Worship

A Meeting for Worship to uphold our worshipping community and support all who speak up for truth & integrity in the face of state oppression

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 28/03/2025

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House

Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.

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Stuart Masters @stuartkmasters.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We need to go beyond “welcoming”, with its “them-and-us” dynamic, and instead be prepared to hand power and agency over to historically marginalised groups to run and shape the church themselves. Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

The image includes the quotation from the main post, plus a picture of Miranda Threlfall-Holmes (a younger white women in navy blue clerical dress).

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Gardening in a Changing Climate Talk, Saturday, 15 March, 7pm, Friends Meeting House, St.Johns Street, Bury St.Edmunds. Discover how to adapt your gardening practices to the challenges posed by a changing climate. climatechangegardening.org

Spring flowers in our meetinghouse garden

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Paul Parker @rcquaker.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Disappointing evidence that the new government isn't listening to campaigners as much as some of us hoped it would.

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Charity campaigners lower expectations on government openness, survey says

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

A bright spring day at our meeting house but homeless people including those sofa surfing & in temporary accommodation are still struggling. Photo shows tent in our town centre: At our meeting we are collecting for the Bury Drop-In charity provides much needed support. www.burydropin.org

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

We are not sure how the flowers ended up on our sundial in the meeting house garden but they do seem to symbolise hope and peace.

Flowers arranged sundial in meeting house garden

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

On Monday 27 January, St Edmundsbury Cathedral will hold a special service in the Abbey Gardens to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. This National Day of Remembrance is in honour of victims of genocide. The service will take place in the Peace Garden in the Abbey Gardens at 10.30 am.

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Friends World Committee @globalquakers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Having withdrawn from X/Twitter as an organisation, our General Secretary Tim Gee reflects on Quaker usage of social media more widely in The Friend. Do you think Friends need a testimony on this issue? thefriend.org/article/off-...

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Off-platform: Tim Gee on the need for a Quaker testimony on social media | The Friend

‘The line is where the bad seems to outweigh the good.’| The Friend

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Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

New Quake it Up video! This is a book review of Jennifer Kavanagh’s Do Quakers Pray? A book which I think will certainly have an impact on my Quaker practice. #quaker #theology youtu.be/vXBOXu7aKO4

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Book Review - Do Quakers Pray by Jennifer Kavanagh

YouTube video by Quake It Up

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Mark D Russ @markdruss.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Just settling down for the second session of my @woodbrooke.bsky.social online book group, reading "The Spirit of Freedom." We're thinking about discernment and how we measure theological truth. #Quaker #spirituality #theology www.collectiveinkbooks.com/christian-al...

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Spirit of Freedom, The from Christian Alternative Books

The Spirit of Freedom offers accessible, useful, and life-affirming theology rooted in Quaker spirituality and Biblical wisdom. Collecting ...

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

After years of persecution, with their members often being fined or imprisoned, the government finally conceded to the Quakers' demand for religious freedom in the Act of Toleration 1689, which repealed earlier anti-Quaker laws and allowed Friends to

The Friends House in Addingham built in 1689

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 15/01/2025

🌍✨ Peace begins in the classroom! ✨🌍 We’re thrilled to share that the Open University has launched its first peace education course on its learning platform OpenLearn! 🎉 ✅ Free & open to everyone ✅ Self-paced, 12-hour course ✅ Packed with practical ideas & videos www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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OpenLearn launches first peace education course

The Open University (OU) is offering a peace education course for the first time, thanks to a partnership between OU staff and Quakers in Britain.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 16/01/2025

Alongside 17 NGOs we welcome the temporary cessation of hostilities between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. This pause is a vital step and we call on the UK Govt to do its part to ensure this becomes a permanent ceasefire as a starting point for justice and accountability. www.map.org.uk/news/archive...

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18 NGOs demand UK Government ensure Gaza cessation of hostilities leads to justice and accountability

18 NGOs demand UK Government ensure Gaza cessation of hostilities leads to justice and accountability.

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Bury St.Edmunds Quakers @bsequakers.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Very excited to be just starting out on BlueSky. Several people have joined or visited our Quaker Meeting recently, and we really look forward to seeing more people in person, online and of course interacting through BlueSky! If you do come, we do not bite!

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