29th September 2017

A tablecloth and testimonies

by Rebecca Grove
29th September 2017

Quaker peace-building in art

by Linda Murgatroyd
29th September 2017

Friends and animals

by Thom Bonneville

In the earliest days of the Society many Friends bore witness on behalf of animals. Many of those who followed them carried this concern forward through the centuries. While the…

29th September 2017

Homeless

by Alec Davison

I looked into his eyes and saw only emptiness infinite resignation: despair. I saw someone drowning in the ocean of hurting, rootless, flotsam, adrift homeless: without home. No…

29th September 2017

Images of Christ: Of shrouds, handkerchiefs and emeralds…

by Rowena Loverance
29th September 2017

Discerning passion

by Roland Carn

Britain Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017 begins the first of its four themes ‘Heart’, ‘Head’, ‘Hands’ and ‘Feet’. George Lakey, the American Quaker activist and…

22nd September 2017

You see me; I see you

by Roswitha Jarman
22nd September 2017

A day at war with the arms trade

by Mark Meatcher
22nd September 2017

Thought for the Week: Building on rock, not sand

by Michael Wright

Hurricanes, rain and floods have been very much in the news recently, whether in the Caribbean or in Asia. Jesus is reported to have said: ‘Everyone who hears these words of mine…

22nd September 2017

Mental health: the challenge

by John Myhill
22nd September 2017

From the archive: The relief of suffering

by Janet Scott

On 6 July 1917 the Friend published a list of the workers with the Friends’ War Victims’ Relief Committee. Some 250 women and men were named, including those who worked in the…

15th September 2017

Quakers without borders

by Daniel Flynn