During the Yearly Meeting at the University of Warwick between 29 July and 5 August Friends dealt with an enormous number of items of routine business, including various…
There are positive things we can look forward to, Molly Scott Cato, Quaker and Green MEP, assured her audience at the 2017 Salter Lecture, ‘Brexit, Chilcot and the Role of…
If the Spirit is in every person then the Quaker community is, by definition, open to all. In the George Gorman Lecture, held on Tuesday 1 August, Tim Gee explored themes such as…
To All Friends Everywhere From the 29 July to the 4 August 2017, participants from across Britain and Europe joined Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG),…
Rembrandt’s etching Christ Preaching (1652) is a remarkable work of art, but it is also a penetrating essay on the nature of spoken ministry, which can provide us with valuable…
In the opening session of Yearly Meeting Gathering Mark Russ, of Woodbrooke, had hundreds of Friends stamping their feet, clicking their fingers, patting their hands on their…
The Revision Preparation Group (RPG) was formed by Meeting for Sufferings following Yearly Meeting’s inability to find unity in 2014 on the issue of whether to revise Quaker…
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