Forty-three Friends, including a visiting English Friend, came to General Meeting (GM) for Scotland in Inverness on Saturday 16 June. GM holds four meetings annually and these…
An adopted American, a leader, a communicator, a visionary, who was also terrible with money, blind to his own faults, patronising, sometimes lauded and sometimes despised: William…
It is a valuable tradition that testimonies to the grace of God in the life of departed Friends should present the Friend warts and all. So, it was with William Penn when his local…
We live in a military society. British culture, prosperity, ceremony and government structure are built on conquest and annexation. Our empire, though, is over and we have to…
It is seventy years since the World Council of Churches (WCC) was formed in Amsterdam in 1948, one of several organisations that, following the second world war, aimed to bring…
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