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…
The public realm has grown increasingly conflicted in recent years and, without a strong grounding in personal morality or spiritual belief, it is easy to become buffeted by the…
‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there,’ wrote LP Hartley in the The Go-Between, a novel of lost innocence, written after the second world war but set…
It is just under eight years since I ‘came out’ with my diagnosis of dementia in an article in the Friend. Since the diagnosis so much in my life has changed. This is nothing…
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