I remember sitting ready for Meeting for Worship on the morning following the Dunblane massacre in 1996. I was in the quiet of the Meeting room and could hear Friends arriving,…
When George Lakey opened his heart to us in our opening session at the Yearly Meeting in Gathering at the University of Warwick, talking so movingly about his personal journey and…
‘There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war – at least as exigent,…
I began August at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) as I ended it at the Greenbelt Festival: with my tribe, my heart opened and mind expanded. The festival feeds a hunger across the…
I am one of those people who needs to know the history of everything. Even when I had an eye operation, years ago, I was tempted to waste the surgeon’s time by asking him who…
As belief in God is such a personal thing, it seemed only fair to give my pupils, who are from eleven to fourteen years of age, a chance to express their feelings, thoughts and…
When I started writing this piece, the BBC was under fire again for giving Nigel Lawson, the former chancellor of the exchequer, peak airtime on the Today programme, no less, to…
Then there were brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said: Suffer little children, and forbid…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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