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updated: this page 15 December 2011; events page 9 January 2012 here.


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The Colebrook Courier - Winchester Quakers Newsletter - for Summer 2011 is here.
The key common ground among the whole world family of Friends:
(1) the centrality of inward encounter with God and revelation, and forms of worship that allow this to be experienced

(2) a way of doing church business based on the idea of corporate direct guidance rather than voting

(3) the spiritual equality of everyone

(4) the preference for peace and pacifism rather than war, and the commitment to other forms of social witness
(for source and more details see here)