I became interested in mental health when I was quite young, as I seemed to be peculiar in some way I could not explain. This led me to train as a psychiatric nurse, and later to…
The temptation to block erstwhile Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or WeChat ‘friends’ is strong when they post, what I find to be, objectionable opinions, photos, or YouTube…
The resurrection, however literally or otherwise we interpret it, demonstrates the power of God, to bring life out of brokenness; not just to take the hurt out of brokenness but to…
For centuries Quakers did not celebrate any religious holidays because of a deeply held belief that all days are ‘holy days’. Public fasts and feasts were ‘devised in man’s…
The Society of Friends might be thought of as a prism through which the Divine Light passes, to become visible in a spectrum of many colours Quaker faith & practice 18.20 Now…
The term ‘effective altruism’, coined by the organisations Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours in November 2011, means trying to ensure that any efforts we make to help those…
In January 1965, as we were travelling by boat down the west coast of Africa, I put the antenna of my short wave radio out of the porthole and heard station after station…
‘But you have to go through darkness in order to see the light. If you’re always in light, you don’t see it anymore. And this is the whole element of struggle – the courage…
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