Culture Articles
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
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
Viva Voting! Viva Zille!
The first South African election of 1994 – after apartheid – is right up there with the fall of the Berlin Wall as one of the mythical events of democratic history: the long queues, the long waits, the good-humoured patience and stoicism, the transcendent joy of a country full of people...
Committed partnerships and marriage: the issue is equality not ‘what people do in bed’
Lesbian, gay and bisexual Quakers, meeting at the end of April, were united in the view that Britain Yearly Meeting’s response to the recognition of same-sex committed partnerships must be focused on equality and not on ‘what people do in bed’. The planned sessions at Yearly...
The Word
– The Word has disappeared into Flesh; become implicate, folded into the tapestry of things.