Friends often refer to the idea of ‘the priesthood of all believers’, but what exactly do we mean by the term? ‘Priest’ literally comes from the Greek word presbyteros,…
If my Local Meeting is my immediate family, my Area Meeting my extended family, then Meeting for Sufferings has comprised my more distant cousins whom I meet occasionally. This is…
When I moved to South East London I was pleased to discover that my Local Meeting was wheelchair accessible. I have been a member for most of my life, joining as a pre-teen, and…
A young Kenyan Quaker, Hanningtone Mucherah, was one of the two Quaker World Relations Committee (QWRC) guests who attended Britain Yearly Meeting at Friends House earlier this…
As the first world war approached the end of its fourth year, and with the German advance in France reaching its greatest extent, there was a sense of weariness and frustration.…
If British Friends are to exercise that life that takes away the occasion of war, fuelled as it is by distrust and alienation, then surely they should look again at Russia with…
There’s a walk I go on from home which takes me past my old school. It looks smaller now, despite having new classrooms and a lick of paint, but children play outside it as they…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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