One of the commonest big questions that people ask is: ‘What is the meaning of life?’ I think they’re asking the wrong question. This question presupposes that in the…
Sometime last year we decided as a family that we should live life more adventurously; so I gave up most of my work, we put our house up for rent and moved to Berlin. In England we…
The Friend Publications Limited, publisher of the Friend and Friends Quarterly, is a small independent charity. We have a board of Quaker trustees and a small number of paid staff.…
…faced with the decision, whether or not to approve the epistle. We had laboured for several hours the day before, and it looked as though preferences for wording and other…
When intolerance, hate crime and anti-Semitism raised its head in 2016, Disley Quakers felt led to figure out what they could do in the community to stand against it. We wanted to…
After every terrorist attack, the media are flooded with experts trying to rationalise events. ‘Who would do such a thing?’ ‘How can we understand them?’ ‘How were they…
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