An invitation to share stories of connection, kindness, and those moments, big or small, that have touched you or made you smile…
by Elinor Smallman
Friendly variety How Quakerism is presented to the world can reflect the complexities we find within our community surprisingly succinctly, as David Fish, of Rugby Meeting, found.…
Friends of a feather Friends flock together for many reasons, and some groups become a Quaker Recognised Body of Britain Yearly Meeting. Here you’ll find a selection of these…
A revolutionary role Friendly finances may have had an unexpected role in the US American revolution. While reading some biographies of the signatories of the US Declaration of…
Collective nouns ‘Of course, few Local Meetings achieve it; nor even Area Meetings. But could one say that at Yearly Meeting there was a “Diversity of Quakers”?’ Jane…
Going awry Over the sea to the island of Skye There’s a handful of Quakers going awry. For there’s terrors by heaps That they reap from the deeps And it’s fearful what beast…
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