‘Do you do dry-cleaning?’ Of all the questions we’d anticipated when starting up a Quaker peace and justice centre, this was not on the list, but it came up surprisingly often.
On the front wall of our Meeting House in Berkhamsted is the lettering: 1818. Not the date when Friends were first active in the district, but the year when they had a home. This…
Paulette Meier is a Friend from Ohio who has been visiting Britain and sharing the wisdom of early Friends through her ‘song chants’. Her ‘music ministry’ involves singing…
Hemel Hempstead Local Quaker Meeting is celebrating its tercentenary this year. So far, it has proved to be an invigorating and exciting year with, inevitably, a great deal of…
A search for ‘polyamory’ in the Friend finds two references, both in discussions about non-mainstream sexuality, but neither with discussion on a Quaker perspective. As a…
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…
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