The first gift you can offer, in an artwork or a conversation, is space. In a generous space we feel received but free to have our own reactions, to stay or to go. We have a…
Over the past few days the chorus of a song keeps repeating in my brain: ‘Faith, hope and charity, that’s the way to live successfully. How do I know? The Bible tells me so.’…
On 18 July MPs voted by a large majority for the continuation/renewal of Trident, the UK’s weapon of mass destruction, with only the Scottish National Party MPs voting solidly…
Several months before the publication of the Chilcot Report our Ipswich Meeting decided to organise a silent vigil in the middle of town. We picked Friday 8 July, which gave enough…
The referendum has been a wake-up call across the voting and non-voting spectrum and many of us have learned a huge amount about our own myopia. While many are paying a very high…
The challenge offered to us was that of creating and delivering a theatre piece that would address head on the issue of state-sponsored torture in relation to the UN Universal…
Where can you go to listen to a Tibetan lama, a Jesuit priest, a Sufi Muslim activist, a Quaker and a social anthropologist in a single weekend? Answer: the Quaker Universalist…
The Battle of the Somme, which began on 1 July and continued until November 1916, was one of the bloodiest battles in human history. More than one million men were wounded or…
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