In the seventeenth century, Isaac Penington and Isaac Newton were searching for something similar. As Isaac Pennington described it: ‘The end of words is to bring [us] to the…
As Yearly Meeting 1918 approached, several subjects were on the minds of Friends. The propositions relating to ‘War and the Social Order’ (now eight rather than the previous…
In December 2008, nearly ten years ago, I came across a remarkable sentence of George Fox and copied it into my inner diary: ‘You have the light to see all evil and the power to…
Every once in a while a book comes out which proves to be a marker in the continuing development of Quaker faith and practice. I believe God, words and us will prove to be just…
When I worked as a professional in the field of mental health the people who sought my help were often deeply distressed, and came to me as a last resort, having looked for relief…
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