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‘Silence is only one of the tools available for worship.’
21st August 2020

‘Silence is only one of the tools available for worship.’

by Rhiannon Grant
‘It feels necessary to acknowledge this unattractive aspect of Quaker history.’
21st August 2020

‘It feels necessary to acknowledge this unattractive aspect of Quaker history.’

by Julia Bush
21st August 2020

Limericks

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This virus, so rampant and furious, Has effects that may well be thought spurious; It makes Quakers send Limericks to the Friend, A symptom decidedly curious. Dorothy Woolley There…

‘Please let your servant be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry.’  (2 Kings 5:17)
14th August 2020

‘Please let your servant be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry.’  (2 Kings 5:17)

by Janet Scott
‘Yes we claim to be friendly, nice people. But these dynamics are more subtle than that.’
14th August 2020

‘Yes we claim to be friendly, nice people. But these dynamics are more subtle than that.’

by Derrick Whitehouse
‘Somewhere along the way I realised I would never amount to very much. What a relief that has been.’
14th August 2020

‘Somewhere along the way I realised I would never amount to very much. What a relief that has been.’

by Tony D’Souza
‘Those who love the world can be glad that it will continue after  their death.’
14th August 2020

‘Those who love the world can be glad that it will continue after their death.’

by Elizabeth Coleman
‘Caroline provided Virginia with a role model of an independent woman.’
14th August 2020

‘Caroline provided Virginia with a role model of an independent woman.’

by Kersti Wagstaff
‘They came from different parts of Scotland, including one of the islands.’
14th August 2020

‘They came from different parts of Scotland, including one of the islands.’

by Gill Reid
‘Where there is the greatest evil, there is also the greatest good.’
7th August 2020

‘Where there is the greatest evil, there is also the greatest good.’

by Joseph Jones
‘It will take technology, money, energy and faith.’
7th August 2020

‘It will take technology, money, energy and faith.’

by Antonia Swinson
‘Would our forebears recognise what we are doing as true worship?’
7th August 2020

‘Would our forebears recognise what we are doing as true worship?’

by Geoff Pilliner
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