It is seventy years since the World Council of Churches (WCC) was formed in Amsterdam in 1948, one of several organisations that, following the second world war, aimed to bring…
On 4 November 1916 Frank Sunderland – a pacifist from Letchworth in Hertfordshire, north of London – was formally arrested for refusing to take up military service under the…
Pontius Pilate said ‘What is truth?’ – leaving these words to echo down the ages. Around sixty people mulled over this question at the Quaker Universalist Group’s (QUG)…
On the 7 June 1918 the Friend contained notices of the deaths of Norman Gripper and Hugo Jackson, members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) working in the Section 14 ambulance…
If I were a Quaker pope I would permanently proscribe the use of adjectives such as ‘deep’, ‘total’, ‘profound’ and ‘absolute’. Actually, I would forbid the…
How do we recognise true news from fake news? Some fake news is sensationally obvious, but could it be that some ‘fake news’ is ‘true news’ falsified, told in a different…
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