26th May 2017

From the archive: Peace principles

by Janet Scott

The USA entered the first world war on 6 April 1917 when Congress, in response to a proposal by president Woodrow Wilson, voted to declare war on Germany. He had asked Congress to…

19th May 2017

Thought for the Week: Today

by Alex Thomson

There is a great spiritual poverty in the world today, especially in the Western world. This, it could be argued, began with the decline of the main Western religion, Christianity.…

19th May 2017

Equality and education

by Jeff Beatty
19th May 2017

Tweaking the testimonies

by Richard Seebohm
19th May 2017

Images of Christ: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

by Rowena Loverance
12th May 2017

Doing time in Holot

by Paul FitzPatrick
12th May 2017

Thought for the Week: The structure of evil

by Barrie Rowson

It may be that everyday evil is just an absence of the good, as a Friend recently wrote in the Friend. However, when we are faced with industrialised genocide or the carpet-bombing…

12th May 2017

Creating a just country

by Phil Lucas

In 2015 British Quakers committed themselves to give priority to working with others to identify and address the root causes of inequalities in our society. With increasing powers…

12th May 2017

Reflections on the ‘Red Book’: Location is everything!

by A Friend

We know that Jesus identified himself with the suffering and the sinful, the poor and the oppressed. We know that he went out of his way to befriend social outcasts. We know that…

5th May 2017

Affirming young children

by Jean Jenn and Leonora Davies
5th May 2017

Miracles of transformation

by Joolz Saunders
5th May 2017

That’s music

by Ann Fox