I’ve always been a bit of a misery guts about Christmas. It’s all so frenetic, so nervously celebratory, so… insincere. And this year, there’s an edge to it. Austerity is…
You are blessed when your spirit can endure no more: you have only God’s hands to sustain you. You are blessed when you grieve for what is most dear to you: only then are you…
Friends in the twentieth century have made a considerable contribution to the art and science of conflict transformation. This came partly from the involvement of Friends like…
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