Religion has always been important in my life. As a child, I regularly attended a Church of England service and was part of the choir that sang every Sunday. I was a choral scholar…
Living Wage Week is between Sunday 30 October and Saturday 5 November. This is not George Osborne’s National Living Wage, which is just a hike up of the minimum wage, but an…
From the 19 to the 22 October 1916 Friends held a conference on ‘War and the Social Order’. It was organised by a committee appointed by the Yearly Meeting and was reported in…
For many years Quakers have consistently said that one of our aims in working for peace is to seek to identify the causes of strife and war. Sutton Meeting’s Tuesday Group…
‘I want, therefore I am’ It could be said that without desire you would be dead. In a sense life inheres in the tension between desire and its attainment – or nonattainment,…
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