16th February 2018

The howl in my heart

by Judy Clinton

Several weeks ago I attended a memorial service for the Holocaust and other genocides. The tabernacle was packed with adults and children from different faiths and none, all drawn…

16th February 2018

A Russian tale

by Sergei Nikitin

In January 1986 the US magazine Friends Journal published an article entitled ‘What Happened to the Russian Quakers?’ Gary Sandman, the author of the text, quoted a few stories…

16th February 2018

The Reformation and Friends: John Wesley

by Stuart Masters

The legacy of the Radical Reformation was not just confined to the period immediately after Luther. The influence of the radical ideas that had been generated and the effect that…

16th February 2018

God, magnets and pigeons

by James Yeoman

Of human life the time is a point, and the substance is in a flux, and the perception dull…What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one: philosophy.…

16th February 2018

Prison chaplains

by Medhina

My first attendance at the Quaker Prison Chaplains Conference towards the end of 2017 was full of valuable information, friendly folk, encouragement, sparkling presentations and…

9th February 2018

Belief

by Bill Bingham
9th February 2018

Interview: Jennifer Kavanagh - Finding oneness

by Jennifer Kavanagh
9th February 2018

Openings

by Rosemary Brown
9th February 2018

The practice of sanctuary

by Craig Barnett

British Quakers have been deeply involved in supporting refugees since the seventeenth century, when they welcomed Protestants who were escaping religious persecution in France.…

9th February 2018

The Reformation and Friends: Hans Denck

by Stuart Masters

We tend to assume that Quakerism is a unique faith tradition. George Fox gives the impression that his insights were formed entirely by divine revelation. However, the evidence…

9th February 2018

Is Quakerism for the elderly?

by G Gordon Steel

Young people brought up in a Quaker Meeting tend to drift away in their teenage years. This is common, and has been the case for as long as I can remember. They are growing up,…

2nd February 2018

Dunblane Friends

by Robin Davis