Visiting a different Meeting I was greeted at the door with a lovely smile, a warm handshake and the words ‘Welcome Friend!’ It really resonated with me, as a group of…
Meeting of Friends in Wales meets in February, June and October each year in different parts of the country to give the widely scattered Friends a chance to worship together and to…
We were standing at the platform waiting for a train after a weekend workshop when a Friend posed this question. ‘I am used to it’, I assured her and added: ‘It happens so…
A key question addressed at a conference organised by the Nontheist Friends Network (NFN) and held at Woodbrooke on 9-11 March was the future of Quakerism in Britain: In 2005…
We are all familiar with the idea of a prison chaplain, or one working in a hospital, a hospice, a school or a university – but a sports team or a club, or even an offshore oil…
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