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Contemporary British Quakers
The Quaker Condition: the sociology of a liberal religion, edited by Pink Dandelion and Peter Collins. Cambridge Scholars Press. ISBN: 978 1847185 65 5. £34.99 or £25 from Woodbrooke. The Quaker Condition: the sociology of a liberal religion addresses central questions such as what is it to be a Quaker… -
Research with Quakers living in Britain
Helen Meads and Susan Robson explain the process behind the book The Quaker Condition Have you contributed to a Quaker research project in the last few years? Have you answered a yes/no questionnaire, reflected in an interview, or been in a group that has focused on a particular topic? If…
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What does ‘God’s will’ really mean?
This is a book about discernment, how we use the experience of God as a guide to living our lives and making decisions, both as individuals and as Quaker Meetings.
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YMG showing for student’s film
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A new kind of growth
Twitter Friends of mine will know that I arrived a day late at the table. It took me some time to orientate myself, and understand some of the complexities of Yearly Meeting Gathering. The rest will no doubt follow in good time. Still, like the labourers in the vineyard, in… -
The life you can save
On your way to work you pass an unaccompanied toddler, drowning in a shallow pond. ‘Wading in is safe and easy, but you will ruin your new shoes… get your suit wet and muddy… and be late for work.’ Practically everyone would agree that you have a moral duty to… -
Food, Friends and Fellowship
Food, Friends and Fellowship begins with a little about Quakers and sharing, then starts like any good meal with a grace. The introduction is followed by the recipes in sections: first we get ‘sweet things’ and then ‘savouries and things’; the savouries section being subdivided into soups, salads, fish, meat…"/>
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Quiet sensibility and unobtrusive skill
The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion. Faber and Faber. ISBN: 978 057124 492 8. £12.99. -
Allotments are back in fashion!
Judy Kirby recalls the Allotment Committee’s work from 1926 to 1946 and Molly Scott Cato looks at the current Stroud Cooperative Agriculture project
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Remembering the treasure we have in each other
Quakers from Britain Yearly Meeting have supported people and programmes in former Yugoslavia for eighteen years. The formal institutional support has now come to an end. The former Quaker representatives in the region tell us what was done
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