I suggest that the phrase ‘Quakers believe everyone is equal’ needs the concluding words: ‘before God.’ It then stands as a fundamental Quaker belief. The problem in adding…
Is the eternal about ‘universal absolutes’ that ‘cannot change’? Not for me. The only unchanging absolute in the universe is, I feel, change itself. The notion of immutable…
Quakers talk of answering that of God in everyone – and we do mean everyone. Often when we talk of outreach, we assume that with our emphasis on equality everyone will be at home…
How can our Quakerism support us in times of grave need? How do we respond spiritually when gripped with ill-health? Being diagnosed with a chronic illness can be a faith-testing…
And the earth gave way unexpectedly like a newly arthritic knee and left me
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