15th September 2017

Thought for the Week: Making the crossing

by Peggy Heeks

The concept of life as a journey is a familiar one. Applicants for membership of our Society often speak of this move as being ‘part of their journey’, and a whole chapter of…

15th September 2017

An alternative manifesto

by Ken Veitch

Theresa May described the 2017 general election, a few weeks before it was held, as ‘the most important election this country has faced in my lifetime’. She hoped it would…

15th September 2017

Business and fun

by Simon Risley
15th September 2017

The Judas Passion

by Ian Kirk-Smith

The Passion story is told for the first time from the perspective of Judas Iscariot in a new work for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: The Judas Passion. Sally Beamish,…

8th September 2017

Speaking out together

by Ruth Tod
8th September 2017

Thought for the Week: Intelligent loving

by Judy Clinton

I remember sitting ready for Meeting for Worship on the morning following the Dunblane massacre in 1996. I was in the quiet of the Meeting room and could hear Friends arriving,…

8th September 2017

Words from Warwick

by Bob Lovett

When George Lakey opened his heart to us in our opening session at the Yearly Meeting in Gathering at the University of Warwick, talking so movingly about his personal journey and…

8th September 2017

Slaying Goliath

by Sam Donaldson

‘There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war – at least as exigent,…

8th September 2017

An open space

by Abigail Maxwell

I began August at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG) as I ended it at the Greenbelt Festival: with my tribe, my heart opened and mind expanded. The festival feeds a hunger across the…

8th September 2017

James Nayler

by Simon Webb

I am one of those people who needs to know the history of everything. Even when I had an eye operation, years ago, I was tempted to waste the surgeon’s time by asking him who…

1st September 2017

Thought for the Week: Asking questions

by Sarah Bell

As belief in God is such a personal thing, it seemed only fair to give my pupils, who are from eleven to fourteen years of age, a chance to express their feelings, thoughts and…

1st September 2017

Quaker diversity

by Diana Francis