3rd March 2017

Wellsprings

by Angela Nunn
3rd March 2017

Thought for the Week: Encountering Robert Barclay

by Mark Frankel

Robert Barclay’s An Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1676) is a classic statement of Quaker faith. A copy will be found in the libraries of most Meeting houses, but I…

3rd March 2017

The Green Belt

by Paul Honigmann

The need to review Green Belt policies has been in the news and recently prompted two letters in the Friend. One was from Jonathan Riddell (3 February), which refers to a previous…

3rd March 2017

Beyond group allegiances

by Howard Grace

The United States of America has a new president. There are huge differences between Donald Trump (2016) and other Time magazine ‘Persons of the Year’ like Mohandas Gandhi…

3rd March 2017

Reflections on the ‘Red Book’: Tender sympathy

by Jill Allum

‘As we enter with tender sympathy into the joys and sorrows of each other’s lives, ready to give help and to receive it, our Meeting can be a channel for God’s love and…

24th February 2017

Respecting children

by Priscilla Alderson
24th February 2017

Thought for the Week: Peace - A three-piece suite

by David Lockyer

The first piece is the deepest, the root from which peace grows; the silence that calms and heals; the point of is-ness when there is no I; no me, no not me; no knowing, no not…

24th February 2017

Preparing for death

by Fred Ashmore

There is, today, a practical, ethical and Christian debate on the subject of death and dying. London Quakers addressed this important concern at a one-day conference on 28 January.…

24th February 2017

Forced migration

by Catherine Henderson

There were signs of spring in the gardens at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre with the conference on ‘Forced migration: how can Quakers respond?’ took place over the first…

24th February 2017

The way to enlightenment

by Peter Hancock
24th February 2017

Forced migration: How can Quakers respond?

by Ian Kirk-Smith

The recent conference held at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, on 3-5 February, raised many important and challenging questions regarding forced migration and, in particular,…

24th February 2017

From the archive: Winter and rough weather

by Janet Scott

1917 began with a severe winter. At Sidcot, the Quaker school in North Somerset, the thermometer registered three degrees Fahrenheit. It was the coldest it had been for twenty-two…