11th August 2017

Junior Yearly Meeting: Epistle

by Junior Yearly Meeting

To All Friends Everywhere From the 29 July to the 4 August 2017, participants from across Britain and Europe joined Junior Yearly Meeting (JYM) at Yearly Meeting Gathering (YMG),…

4th August 2017

Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Main sessions

by Harry Albright
4th August 2017

Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Montage

by Trish Carn and George Penaluna
4th August 2017

Yearly Meeting Gathering: Special interest groups

by reported by Ian Kirk-Smith, George Osgerby, Elinor Smallman and Jamie Wrench
4th August 2017

Nurturing ministry

by Clive Ashwin

Rembrandt’s etching Christ Preaching (1652) is a remarkable work of art, but it is also a penetrating essay on the nature of spoken ministry, which can provide us with valuable…

4th August 2017

Thought for the Week: Community and belonging

by Ian Kirk-Smith

In the opening session of Yearly Meeting Gathering Mark Russ, of Woodbrooke, had hundreds of Friends stamping their feet, clicking their fingers, patting their hands on their…

4th August 2017

Yearly Meeting Gathering 2017: Revising the ‘Red Book’

by Harry Albright

The Revision Preparation Group (RPG) was formed by Meeting for Sufferings following Yearly Meeting’s inability to find unity in 2014 on the issue of whether to revise Quaker…

4th August 2017

Decline or revival?

by Laurence Hall

‘Isn’t it nice to have some young people at Meeting’ is one of the most repeated phrase that Young Adult Friends (YAFs) hear in Meeting – a well meaning phrase but one that…

4th August 2017

Reflections on the ‘Red Book’: Living simply

by Brian Baxter

The produce of the earth is a gift from our gracious creator to the inhabitants, and to impoverish the earth now to support outward greatness appears to be an injury to the…

28th July 2017

Pales: a living testimony

by Peter Rivers
28th July 2017

Interview: Catherine West

by Ian Kirk-Smith
28th July 2017

Building a movement for peace

by David Mowat