‘Working as part of a multi-faith team’ was the theme at this year’s conference at Woodbrooke for Quaker prison chaplains. I found it interesting and enjoyable, with a good…
On the afternoon of Monday 11 November 1918 David Lloyd George, the prime minister, announced in the House of Commons that ‘the cruellest and most terrible war that has ever…
Torture is something we can be reluctant to think about. We don’t like to countenance the idea that people will deliberately inflict pain on others for whatever reason, and we…
Between sixty and seventy of us met together in Paris at the L’Enclos Rey, a Catholic centre, surrounded by the teeming streets and avenues of the fifteenth arrondissement just…
Our Local Meeting has recently welcomed three new members – Friends who had been part of our Meeting community for some two to five years. It was a ‘joyful occasion’ (Quaker…
Take 1,000 children, five primary schools and what do you get? Answer: a room full of noise, which is ironic, considering we have come here to talk about peace. I am sitting in…
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