Since I was very young, I’ve always wanted to know how things worked. What does this cog do, or that lever? So, it has long puzzled me as to what makes Quaker Meetings tick.…
Are we a post-Christian Society? Dutch Friend Kees Nieuwerth (‘People of Peace,’ 2 March) expresses his keen regret that a fellow conscientious objector felt the Religious…
Friends in France have released a translation of the France Yearly Meeting Epistle drawn up at their gathering in Carcassonne between 21-24 October 2017. The Epistle celebrates the…
The Woodbrooke course ‘Quakers and European Politics’, held between 9-11 February, was led by Andrew Lane, director of the Quaker Council for European Affairs office in…
Two of the most frustrating aspects of mystical spiritual experience are: first, one desires strongly to help others find a way into their own spiritual relationship (with the…
In the 11 January 1918 edition of the Friend George Cadbury was reported as speaking at a Meeting about the decline in attendance. There was, he said, ‘not a single meeting of…
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