9th March 2018

Friends in France share translation of YM Epistle

by Rebecca Hardy

Friends in France have released a translation of the France Yearly Meeting Epistle drawn up at their gathering in Carcassonne between 21-24 October 2017. The Epistle celebrates the…

9th March 2018

Looking for a touchstone

by Richard Seebohm

The Woodbrooke course ‘Quakers and European Politics’, held between 9-11 February, was led by Andrew Lane, director of the Quaker Council for European Affairs office in…

9th March 2018

The Collateral Damage project

by Linda Murgatroyd
2nd March 2018

Living with change

by Patricia Gosling
23rd February 2018

The unexamined spiritual life

by Noël Staples

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…

23rd February 2018

Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’

by Mike Tooby
23rd February 2018

From the archive: ...diversities of service but the same Lord (1 Corinthians 12:5)

by Janet Scott

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…

16th February 2018

Bird on the wire

by Trish Munn
16th February 2018

The howl in my heart

by Judy Clinton

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…

16th February 2018

A Russian tale

by Sergei Nikitin

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…

16th February 2018

The Reformation and Friends: John Wesley

by Stuart Masters

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…

16th February 2018

God, magnets and pigeons

by James Yeoman

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.…