14th July 2017

Thought for the Week: Community together

by Ann Lewis

When intolerance, hate crime and anti-Semitism raised its head in 2016, Disley Quakers felt led to figure out what they could do in the community to stand against it. We wanted to…

14th July 2017

Beyond terrorism

by Hilary Peters

After every terrorist attack, the media are flooded with experts trying to rationalise events. ‘Who would do such a thing?’ ‘How can we understand them?’ ‘How were they…

7th July 2017

The Barrow Pilgrimage

by Andy Weller
7th July 2017

At the Quaker burial ground, Long Sutton

by Roger Iredale
7th July 2017

Thought for the Week: What soft silence wills

by Freya Blyth

The Meeting we experienced as a group on the Sunday morning of Young Friends General Meeting (held 26-28 May) was nothing short of profound. It has been described since as the…

7th July 2017

Building further

by Siw Wood

Soon it will be a quarter of a century since the Meeting of Friends in Wales (MFW) began – and Friends will be celebrating at our Meeting in October, calling to mind the…

7th July 2017

The business of war

by Sue Hampton
7th July 2017

Quakers and conflict

by Abigail Maxwell

Quakers should approach conflict in Meeting positively and as an inevitable part of life. We should not seek it out, but we should welcome it. When we reveal what is in our hearts,…

7th July 2017

My Quaker bedrock

by Bob Johnson

Alas,’ said a world expert, disparagingly. ‘Pity we can’t all be Quakers.’ This was over a video link from Massachusetts. He had just told the conference he was addressing…

30th June 2017

Time in the tomb

by Gill Pennington
30th June 2017

The challenge of diversity

by Phil Lucas
30th June 2017

Thought for the Week: Martha and Mary

by T Roger S Wilson

If our beloved Society was ever divided into two parts, a charitable trust (to look after Quaker buildings and administer Quaker charitable funds) and a second non-charitable…