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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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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