Language can become a barrier to thought and communication rather than a facilitator of it. I think that three words –‘religion’, ‘transcendent’ and ‘personal’…
Through most of our history, Quakers were strongly discouraged from going to the theatre. Friends once objected to Shakespeare being studied and performed in Quaker schools. Our…
The Friend has been investigating alternatives to the polythene wrapper that we presently use and liaising closely with our printers. They hope to be able to offer options, such as…
I do not think I was the only person to have found the Yearly Meeting agenda a trifle surprising. Apart from the necessary business of Yearly Meeting (appointments, trustee and…
Just before Yearly Meeting, a colleague made me, as a joke, a badge which says: ‘I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that.’ I’d wanted one for ages;…
When during my membership application visit I was asked what I understood by the word ‘God’ I replied without hesitation, quoting from my Buddhist vocabulary the paragraph that…
The Quaker Lesbian and Gay Fellowship became QLGF, with a strapline saying it supported the LGBT+ community. Then it became the Quaker Gender and Sexual Diversity Community…
The movement against climate change is growing in momentum. But behind climate change lies capitalism, as Naomi Klein has pointed out in her book This Changes Everything, one of…
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