Communing in the Spirit might be one way to describe Quaker worship. Individuals meet together mainly in silence, but the aim is to become a ‘gathered’ Meeting, to be in…
As I sat in the cell my mind wandered. What would be happening now? It was about eleven o’clock on Sunday morning – Quaker Meeting time! No wonder I felt so lifted up. People…
Ostensibly, Mary Shelley’s story of Frankenstein is sensationalist pulp-fiction – ripe for exploitation by production companies making X-rated films – but the symbolism tells…
I could have said being Quaker, being Christ, being fully human, but being, is fairly static. Life is flowing, forever changing. In each moment we are becoming: becoming angry,…
Faith and scepticism – we need both – faith without scepticism is like trying to walk with one leg only – but, as I omitted to say, one has to have some impression, opinion…
Now thou must die in the silence, to the fleshly wisdom, knowledge, reason, and understanding; so thou comest to feel that which brings thee to wait upon God; (thou must die…
If you live within reach of London, you have less than a month to hotfoot it round to the British Museum, and, in their ‘South Africa: The art of a nation’ exhibition, see one…
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