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
Silences What happens during ‘silent’ worship? Jane Short shared a flavour of her experiences with Eye after being inspired by her time in Meetings at Canterbury to pen six…
What a funny lot Quakers are called ‘a peculiar people’ Who sit in a room without any steeple. It’s hard for a stranger to tell who is who – Who is the leader? Who sits in…
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