Shirley McCaw shares the delight her hobby brings her, plus an invitation to poetically-inclined Friends - Quaker-themed limericks, acrostics, or haikus are very welcome…
by Elinor Smallman
An intercepted letter A Friend from a long line of Quakers made an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live programme on 11 July. Speaking with Viv Groskop forty-three minutes…
Hitting the spot While Friends can’t meet in one room, One option we’ve found is to Zoom. This may hit the spot. Then again, it may not, The best way for all? Don’t assume.…
Modern… quiet… freedom… inspiration… eagle-eyed readers have spotted Friends popping up in the leaves of a number of books, newspapers and magazines in recent months. As…
Political pronouns In an article about the politics of pronouns published in November 2019, a writer in The New York Times turned to early Friends for insight. Teresa M Bejan, a…
Quaker translations Recent research led Richard Seebohm, of Oxford Meeting, to a Friend article penned by two Quakers based in Ghana in 1967. Tongue firmly in cheek, Alan and Julie…
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