29th June 2018

Letters of a conscientious objector

by Kate Macdonald

On 4 November 1916 Frank Sunderland – a pacifist from Letchworth in Hertfordshire, north of London – was formally arrested for refusing to take up military service under the…

29th June 2018

Quaker understandings of truth

by Dorothy Buglass

Pontius Pilate said ‘What is truth?’ – leaving these words to echo down the ages. Around sixty people mulled over this question at the Quaker Universalist Group’s (QUG)…

29th June 2018

Sons and mothers

by Janet Scott

On the 7 June 1918 the Friend contained notices of the deaths of Norman Gripper and Hugo Jackson, members of the Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU) working in the Section 14 ambulance…

22nd June 2018

Exploring priesthood

by John Peirce
22nd June 2018

Bookings and procedures

by Jane Rosenberg
22nd June 2018

Unemphatically speaking

by John Anderson

If I were a Quaker pope I would permanently proscribe the use of adjectives such as ‘deep’, ‘total’, ‘profound’ and ‘absolute’. Actually, I would forbid the…

22nd June 2018

Intentions and meaning

by Bob Lovett

How do we recognise true news from fake news? Some fake news is sensationally obvious, but could it be that some ‘fake news’ is ‘true news’ falsified, told in a different…

22nd June 2018

God is a dotted crotchet

by Dorothy Searle
22nd June 2018

New Zealand Yearly Meeting

by Keith Reeves and Margaret Beckett

How to grow the meetings of children and young people; the administration of a new website to foster communication within and beyond the Society; and the appropriate use of the…

22nd June 2018

Speaking in Meeting

by Freyr LePage

Yesterday was my first ever spoken ministry in Meeting for Worship and, due perhaps to my inexperience, the only words I could get out were: ‘When you wait upon the Lord, there…

15th June 2018

Freedom and speech

by Trish Carn

Who should and should not be permitted to hire our Meeting houses? What criteria should guide refusal? These questions are faced by all Meeting houses that hire their premises to…

15th June 2018

The simplicity of love

by Bob Morley