Looking closely When did you last go for a walk – not to get anywhere in particular, not to go from A to B, but just to linger and look? Most of the time we are in too much of a…
The year 1916 had been a brutal one, with the Somme and Verdun exacting a terrible loss of life and enormous casualties on both sides. In the final edition of the year the Friend…
In December 1916 Britain faced a third Christmas of conflict. The war had not been ‘over by Christmas’ 1914 – as young volunteers had been told in the autumn of that year.…
When I came to Woking in 1999 the first group I joined was the Woking Community Play Association, a group that writes and stages dramas about the local community. After some years…
Picture a small car park on top of a hill near Montgomery Castle in Powys. The trees are in glorious autumn colours, the sunlight filtering through. A woman from Morocco with two…
Sharing groups are good experiences. The men’s sharing group I attended at Pendle Hill for a year was wonderful. But should a sharing group claim to be a religion?
You were warned what would happen if you invaded Iraq but you left us facing a predictable fate with bombs. We needed friendship, not an attack.
Some years ago I read that the thing to do with pain was to give it as a gift to God. Dear heavens, I thought, what kind of a ‘gift’ is that? The author clearly didn’t mean…
One of the most important of the original Quaker insights is that our testimony is what we do. It is not what we say we believe or what we claim to value that matters, but what we…
"If you truly want to be led you must put yourself in a position that allows following" (PYM)
Though written within a Quaker and Christian context, this book can be used by anyone of any religious faith or secular inclination. The only requirement is a desire to follow, to be guided by, to align with the richness of the ineffable, which this book calls "the Way". This book seeks nothing less than to aid readers in aligning their lives with the same power and richness that animated the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
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