When I started writing this piece, the BBC was under fire again for giving Nigel Lawson, the former chancellor of the exchequer, peak airtime on the Today programme, no less, to…
Then there were brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them. But Jesus said: Suffer little children, and forbid…
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The right conduct of our meetings for church affairs depends upon all coming to them in an active, seeking spirit, not with minds already made up on a particular course of…
Some of the matters on the minds of Friends in the summer of 1917 were revealed through letters to the Friend. The following selection was published on 3 August. One Friend was…
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