Resolving the current conflict around what constitutes anti-Semitism requires us to walk a mile in the other’s shoes. Peacebuilding requires that we understand the root causes of…
Last year there was a letter in the Friend about Ackworth School. It said that the school: ‘…also wanted to tell us that it continues to be Quaker in “outlook and…
Earlier this year I was asked to speak at Quaker Quest on ‘Truth’. At our meeting beforehand one speaker said that since he’d become a Quaker he never, ever lied –…
The clerk of the Meeting dies and goes to heaven where, as he had confidently expected, he is met at the pearly gates by saint Peter: flowing locks, curly beard, white gown, halo…
The Friends’ Ambulance Unit reports for August 1918 tell of a surprise visit to their Queen Alexandra Hospital by the king. It was noted in the Friend on 6 September that: His…
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