Quakers were born and began in times of much greater crisis than we are experiencing right now. When George Fox, founder of the Quaker movement, preached in Malton in North…
Faith is a difficult word. I looked it up in a dictionary to check what it means: the confidence or trust in a person or a thing, or a deity or teachings of a religion. What do I…
How can we harness the power of the group? Scottish Friends, meeting in Aberdeen on 10 September, heard a provocative address from Glasgow Friend Michael Hutchinson challenging us…
I didn’t join the Quakers; After Mass I attended their Sunday service. ‘Isn’t Mass enough for you?’ I understood Colleen’s question.
Michael Servetus (‘The Friends of God’, 8 July) was a polymath who realised that the theological concept of the Trinity was a product of Greek philosophy and not of the Bible.…
We arrived at the Maison Quaker in Congénies, the only purpose-built Meeting house in France, at 10.30am after a drive of one-and-a-half hours, with time to relax and prepare for…
Isn’t Quakerism wonderful? But can it solve economic crises and tax blunders too? The political economist and writer Richard Murphy thinks so, and extols our Quaker testimonies…
Stephen Hobhouse had been instrumental in setting up the Emergency Committee for the Relief of Alien Enemies and was its chairman until he resigned on becoming caught up in the…
Setting the world to rights over plates of pasta, Emma, Pat and I decided that it would be a very good idea if someone found a cure for depression. I nearly said that there was a…
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