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Informal groups within Blackheath Quaker Meeting

Several informal groups meet in the homes of members of the Meeting. Full details are not given here, but can be obtained by attending Sunday Meeting for Worship. 
 

Exploring Spiritual Paths

The group meets every other Thursday evening to explore, expand and deepen their individual spiritual journeys. The meeting starts with writing on questions around a theme in preparation for sharing thoughts on it. Recent themes include:

  • Christianity and the Quaker journey?
  • Quaker tolerance: how far?
  • Upholding the Quaker Peace Testimony.
  • Simplicity in a complex consumer society.
  • Spiritual perspectives on living and dying.
  • The spiritual paths of other faiths.
  • Events/people that have significantly shifted your spiritual journey.
     

Book group

A book group meets regularly. Next meeting:

5 April: Charlotte Brontë, Villette

Books previously discussed:

2009
17 December: Poems of Carol Ann Duffy

2010
2 February: Tahir Shah, In Arabian Nights: in Search of Morocco through its Stories
18 March: Sathnam Sanghera, The Boy With the Topknot
27 April: ‘Personal Favourite’ poems
10 June: Hilary Mantel, Giving up the Ghost: A Memoir
20 July: Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
9 September: Joanne Harris, Chocolat
19 October: Alice Munro, Runaway (short stories)
2 December: Kamila Shamsi, Burnt Shadows

2011
11 January: Katherine Stockett, The Help
24 February: Bella Pollen, The Summer of the Bear 

Eco group

Blackheath Friends have started an active group to help each other to make the transitions in life style essential in light of the threats of global warming. We focus on putting into effect ways of reducing individual consumption of gas, electricity, water, petrol and oil, and on a responsible approach to food production and consumption, signing up to the Guardian 10:10 campaign, encouraging neighbours to join 10:10, influencing local shops and communities.

We include collecting information on how other people and communities are moving forward, in an attempt to show that small beginnings by each of us can make a big difference collectively.

Meetings are normally on the last Tuesday of the month.
 

Living Witness Project (www.livingwitness.org.uk)

Blackheath Quaker Meeting is part of the Living Witness Project, a network of Quaker meetings exploring environmental witness which wants to spread sustainability awareness to the wider community in Britain and elsewhere. The experience of other LWP Meetings has been compiled into a summary of Quaker witness and testimony about the environmental crisis and climate change, using also material from Quaker Faith and Practice as well as Quaker witness from the USA. The summary can be downloaded as a PDF file (621 KB), and contains a contact email address so that it can be periodically updated with further submissions.

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