4th August 2017

Nurturing ministry

by Clive Ashwin

Rembrandt’s etching Christ Preaching (1652) is a remarkable work of art, but it is also a penetrating essay on the nature of spoken ministry, which can provide us with valuable…

4th August 2017

Thought for the Week: Community and belonging

by Ian Kirk-Smith

In the opening session of Yearly Meeting Gathering Mark Russ, of Woodbrooke, had hundreds of Friends stamping their feet, clicking their fingers, patting their hands on their…

4th August 2017

Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Revising the ‘Red Book’

by Harry Albright

The Revision Preparation Group (RPG) was formed by Meeting for Sufferings following Yearly Meeting’s inability to find unity in 2014 on the issue of whether to revise Quaker…

4th August 2017

Decline or revival?

by Laurence Hall

‘Isn’t it nice to have some young people at Meeting’ is one of the most repeated phrase that Young Adult Friends (YAFs) hear in Meeting – a well meaning phrase but one that…

4th August 2017

Reflections on the ‘Red Book’: Living simply

by Brian Baxter

The produce of the earth is a gift from our gracious creator to the inhabitants, and to impoverish the earth now to support outward greatness appears to be an injury to the…

28th July 2017

Pales: a living testimony

by Peter Rivers
28th July 2017

Interview: Catherine West

by Ian Kirk-Smith
28th July 2017

Building a movement for peace

by David Mowat
28th July 2017

Thought for the Week: Hope and possibility

by Ian Kirk-Smith

In the spring of 1652 George Fox climbed Pendle Hill in Lancashire and had a vision of a people waiting to be gathered. It was the beginning of a movement that was to become the…

28th July 2017

Friends with Jewish connections

by Harvey Gillman

A few years ago, at a Holocaust memorial meeting in Brighton, I told the woman sitting next to me that, although Jewish in origin, I was a Quaker. She looked at me disapprovingly…

28th July 2017

From the archive: Prisoners

by Janet Scott

In its 8 June edition the Friend reported that Yearly Meeting 1917 had sent a message ‘To Our Friends Imprisoned for Conscience Sake’. It read: We thank God for the faithful…

28th July 2017

Words and images in Glasgow

by Nuala Watt