In the spring of 1652 George Fox climbed Pendle Hill in Lancashire and had a vision of a people waiting to be gathered. It was the beginning of a movement that was to become the…
A few years ago, at a Holocaust memorial meeting in Brighton, I told the woman sitting next to me that, although Jewish in origin, I was a Quaker. She looked at me disapprovingly…
In its 8 June edition the Friend reported that Yearly Meeting 1917 had sent a message ‘To Our Friends Imprisoned for Conscience Sake’. It read: We thank God for the faithful…
One of the commonest big questions that people ask is: ‘What is the meaning of life?’ I think they’re asking the wrong question. This question presupposes that in the…
Sometime last year we decided as a family that we should live life more adventurously; so I gave up most of my work, we put our house up for rent and moved to Berlin. In England we…
The Friend Publications Limited, publisher of the Friend and Friends Quarterly, is a small independent charity. We have a board of Quaker trustees and a small number of paid staff.…
…faced with the decision, whether or not to approve the epistle. We had laboured for several hours the day before, and it looked as though preferences for wording and other…
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