Eye hears about a haiku happenstance, a Quaker Christmas on the BBC, and offers a well-loved phrase for contemplative colouring…
by Elinor Smallman
Celebrating seventy-five years The Quaker United Nations Office (QUNO) represents Friends at the United Nations, and has done for seventy-five years! At an event in June to mark…
Maltsters, manufacturers and merchants Given that many Quakers were involved in the temperance movement, Eye was surprised to hear about the connection between Friends and brewing…
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…
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