Portrait of Arthur Balfour by William Orpen. Photo: Via Wikimedia Commons.
Portrait of Arthur Balfour by William Orpen. Photo: Via Wikimedia Commons.
It began in February 1917 in the context of the first world war – a war in which two sides had reached a stalemate. New allies were being sought urgently. A conference was held between representatives of the British government and the Jewish community resident in the United Kingdom. On 2 November Arthur Balfour, the foreign secretary and a member of the House of Lords, wrote a letter to Lionel Walter Rothschild, a fellow peer who was a representative of part of that Jewish community, stating that the government would ‘favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people… it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine’.
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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