Two of the most frustrating aspects of mystical spiritual experience are: first, one desires strongly to help others find a way into their own spiritual relationship (with the…
In the 11 January 1918 edition of the Friend George Cadbury was reported as speaking at a Meeting about the decline in attendance. There was, he said, ‘not a single meeting of…
Several weeks ago I attended a memorial service for the Holocaust and other genocides. The tabernacle was packed with adults and children from different faiths and none, all drawn…
In January 1986 the US magazine Friends Journal published an article entitled ‘What Happened to the Russian Quakers?’ Gary Sandman, the author of the text, quoted a few stories…
The legacy of the Radical Reformation was not just confined to the period immediately after Luther. The influence of the radical ideas that had been generated and the effect that…
Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull…What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one: philosophy.…
My first attendance at the Quaker Prison Chaplains Conference towards the end of 2017 was full of valuable information, friendly folk, encouragement, sparkling presentations and…
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